In my experience, HTML files DO currently switch -- to — However, the text files use -- because the — entity equivalent doesn't exist in 7bit ASCII. 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. 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: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 21:24:48 +0100

Andrew Sly <sly@victoria.tc.ca> writes:

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I remember clearly an exchange of email with a new white-washer about spaces around emdashes in a German text I was submitting. I was arguing that many other German texts in PG and other places seemed to have the spaces; he was arguing that the files should be prepared "to standard" before being submitted.

Something along these line I read, too. But I thought the post-processors or white-washer would use a special switch to prepare German texts more like traditional German texts ;) For HTML I prefer "xyz — zyx" instead of "xyz--zyx".

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