[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 10366] EM DASH (#x2014) should be shorter than HORIZONTAL BAR (#x2015)

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10366





------- Comment #4 from chris.stone at gmail.com  2007-03-21 13:10 PST -------
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > "To be, or not to be." --William Shakespeare
> > 
> > Note, how em dash is usually used in pairs, and there is supposed to be a small
> > gap between the two dashes.
> You're right about the gap in between, but two em dash that looks wrong.
> People use(d) two hyphens to emulate one em dash. 
> A double em dash would be super long.
> 

The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0 states "may be used in pairs" for em dash. 
Also, EN dash is supposed to be 1/2 the size of EM dash (as far as I understand
it).  So as far as I can see, en dash is slightly larger than hyphen, and em
dash is twice as big as em dash (but still small enough to have a small gap
between two em dash characters). And horizontal line is the largest and has no
gap between characters.

I am no expert by any means, I could be completely wrong on this, but this is
how the dashes look in the pdf http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf


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