Inka (I'm assuming that's who did the HTML version) must not have used any of GutCutter-style tools BilFlis over at DP created! ;) -- to — is not a requirement, as far as I know, but it is something that I see most people do. I see no problem with replacing -- with <space>—<space> in the HTML, though. It would be a very simply find/replace to do so, too. Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Eichwalder" <ke@gnu.franken.de> To: gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org Subject: [gutvol-d] Re: German texts and the m-dash Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:25:40 +0100
"Joshua Hutchinson" <joshua@hutchinson.net> writes:
In my experience, HTML files DO currently switch -- to
Under those circumstances something went wrong with http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/3/4/14340/14340-h/14340-h.htm .
However, the text files use -- because the entity equivalent doesn't exist in 7bit ASCII.
That's okay.
I think I've seen this discussion before on DP forums. If I remember correctly, it was decided to stick to the xyz--xyz standard simply to avoid confusion and complication.
I'm not sure whether the German reading community will get used to it ;-)
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