7 Jan
2005
7 Jan
'05
12:06 a.m.
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Joshua Hutchinson wrote:
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.
However, I do see a problem. Any "simple" global search/replace such as that has it's risks. You cannot assume that every instance of "--" is an emdash. For instance, what would happen to the following (from Roughing it in the Bush, PG#4389): "You were fortunate, C---, to escape," said a backwood settler, Andrew