Mind Your En And Em Dashes: Typographic Etiquette(smashingmagazine.com)
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Mind Your En And Em Dashes: Typographic Etiquette
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/15/mind-your-en-and-em-dashes-typographic-etiquette/
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This is one of my favorite articles on typography. A few of my highlights:
1. Use one space after the period.
2. Indent to start a new paragraph (no need to have a blank line and indent).
3. Use smart quotes!
How pedantic. Two hyphens is a dash, and the "'" character is perfectly usable everywhere you want a single quote or an apostrophe.
Does it really matter how many spaces after a dot one uses, or if dash is really a dash or just two hyphens[1], or how paragraphs are handled? No! Nobody will even notice!
Work on actually getting things done, not adhering to the standard this rag of a publication mindlessly pushes.
[1] As it has been done since the dawn of computing.
Does it really matter how many spaces after a dot one uses, or if dash is really a dash or just two hyphens[1], or how paragraphs are handled? No! Nobody will even notice!
Work on actually getting things done, not adhering to the standard this rag of a publication mindlessly pushes.
[1] As it has been done since the dawn of computing.
"Nobody will even notice!"
Just because you might not doesn't mean everybody won't.
Just because you might not doesn't mean everybody won't.