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From: "DeAnna Burghart" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Unnamed child
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:04:42 -0700
In-Reply-To: <7.0.0.16.2.20060614105253.04a97688@acm.org>


>>MS/Word (and I think WordPerfect) will (in certain cases) automatically
convert two en-dashes to an em-dash when typing in the program.<<

<PEDANT=ON>
You may be thinking of Word's proclivity for changing two hyphens into an
en-dash or an em-dash based on placement. With autocorrect turned on,

word -- word = word &ndash; word

word--word = word&mdash;word

If you actually type two endashes (Ctrl+hyphen on the number pad) they'll
*look* like an emdash, but still be 2 endash units. Also, you can type an
emdash in Word with Ctrl+Alt+hyphen on the numberpad.
<PEDANT=OFF>
<g>

Would that TMG recognized those little shortcuts. I'm a huge fan of
emdashes, but there's no easy way to use them in TMG.

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DeAnna Burghart
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http://members.cox.net/danieleb765/genealogy/


-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Hoffman [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 7:57 AM
To:
Subject: RE: [TMG] Unnamed child


Terry Reigel wrote:
>On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:20:50 -0400, Sholder, Kevin L. wrote:
>
> >
> > This uses the "em dash" found in character map as <ATL> +
> > 0151.
>
>Interesting, Kevin. I've been using a superscripted underscore:
>
>[SUP:]___[:SUP]?[SUP:]___[:SUP]
>
>Never thought to use the em-dash. That's simpler. :-) I suppose teh
>en-dash would work as well. I'll have to test that.

Two en-dashes are normally used to create one em-dash when the
em-dash character is not available. MS/Word (and I think
WordPerfect) will (in certain cases) automatically convert two
en-dashes to an em-dash when typing in the program.


Lee Hoffman/KY
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