[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 #3 from moyogo at gmail.com  2007-03-21 12:16 PST -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> From what I understand, Horizontal Bar is used to _introduce_ quoted text,
> whereas em dash is used to _offset_ parenthetical text.
Yes.

> "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.


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