Re: En dash

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

First of all, what character are we talking about? The en dash
(Speedo 259) is a character not found on a typewriter; it's
longer than a hyphen but shorter than an em dash, and is mostly
used between numbers (Beat the Yankees, 3<1N>0....During the
winter of 1939<1N>1940...). The thing you probably want is the em
dash (Speedo 260), which is the longest dash in common use and it
what you want for a sudden break in thought: "The
prisoners--they've all escaped?" It's been represented on
typewriters by two hyphens for ages.
The problem is that all the high ASCII chars in XyWrite are
peculiar to the Speedo Charset. A lot of them convert correctly
using the WordPerfect Hungarian filters, but apparently not the
Word ones (I won't have Word on any system of mine). There is a
way of getting the universal (at least to Windows) ANSII charset
in Xy; search the archives for Ansified Xy and XyAnsi.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx