[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 #2 from chris.stone at gmail.com  2007-03-21 11:52 PST -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> Horizontal bar doesn't have to be wider than em dash. It can be, but doesn't
> have to be. Horizontal bar, know as quotation dash, is used for quotations but
> it is often as wide as em dash. They are two different characters but can be
> the same glyph.

>From what I understand, Horizontal Bar is used to _introduce_ quoted text,
whereas em dash is used to _offset_ parenthetical text.

So for example, Horizontal bar would be used like this:

-"To be, or not to be."

and em dash would be used like this:

"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.

> 
> > NOTE also EN DASH (#x2013) appears to be centered, where I see it as being
> > aligned to the left.
> En dash currently doesn't have any right nor left bearing, so it is centered.
> I don't see why it should be aligned to the left. Could you clarify?
> 

What I meant was that in sans there is no gap present when you put two em dash
characters side by side, there should be a small gap between them.  If you put
two horizontal bars side by side there should be no gap.


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