Subj : Re: Christian Fellowship
To   : Barry Martin
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Tue Sep 24 2024 12:02:00

BARRY MARTIN wrote:
>The double hyphen (--) is
> translated to a long hyphen by LibreOffice.

Actually, no. It's not translated into an m-dash, as one would expect, 
but into an n-dash, used by absolutely no one for absolutely nothing.

Another weirdness is that the -- to n-dash only works if there's a space 
to either side, which is fine for some things but not how book 
publishing wants it.

The problem is that there's no real standard for m-dash (there are three 
different codes in RTF, and gods know how LibreOffice's XML handles it), 
however there is a standard for n-dash. So that's what it uses, unless 
you paste in a proper m-dash or have it assigned as a special character. 
It may be *calling* an m-dash, but it is an n-dash. (About a third to 
half shorter than an m-dash, but about double the length of a hyphen.)

In fact now that I think of it, I need to see if I can change the 
autocorrect so it'll give me a proper m-dash. Or make it 3 hyphens.

Otherwise I have to keep another document open, with a real m-dash, that 
I can copy and paste from as needed.
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