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@norbert@mastodon.online · 10 months ago

But dashes need to be surrounded by space characters, otherwise this is a hyphen and correctly links the two adjacent words together to form a compound.

Eugen Rochko

@Gargron@mastodon.social · 10 months ago

@norbert @jwildeboer @larsmb @evan An em dash is not supposed to be surrounded by space characters however. Also, I can say something is #Kafka-esque and have it show up in #Kafka where people are more likely to look.

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net · 10 months ago

@Gargron Yes, it's complicated. But my CVE example still holds. And IMHO such use is more common than #Kafka-esque, though the permutations certainly are a sea of possibilities 😊 @norbert @larsmb @evan

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net · 10 months ago

@Gargron I am more shocked that people would use a dash without surrounding whitespace, but I guess I am just an old typographic nerd 😉 @larsmb @evan

Eugen Rochko

@Gargron@mastodon.social · 10 months ago

@jwildeboer @larsmb @evan Othrography online varies a lot. In French it's common to put two spaces after a period. Some people in English forget to put a single space after one. What I'm trying to avoid is a hashtag unexpectedly consuming more text than it should, and in my view, the dash is commonly used as a word boundary.

DamonHD

@DamonHD@mastodon.social · 10 months ago

@Gargron @jwildeboer @larsmb @evan I used to believe that real em-dashes, eg in LaTeX and HTML, and en-dashes, and hyphens ... should rarely have space around them, but now I liberally space at least em-dashes to reduce ambiguity...

Thoralf Will 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇹🇼

@thoralf@soc.umrath.net · 10 months ago

@Gargron @jwildeboer @larsmb @evan
Really? I do not remember ever to have seen that.

Would an option to enable more complex hashtags be an option?