Re: [Docutils-develop] Re: Release time :-/

[Alan G I. <ai...@am...>]

> Alan G Isaac wrote: 
>> Dumping this on the pretext that people who need three hyphens in a
>> row will have to \-\-\- is totally unpersuasive.  That is almost never
>> needed---em dashes, in contrast, are needed all the time.

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Felix Wiemann apparently wrote:
> In fact, two hyphens in a row do not occur "almost never" but quite
> frequently.  Just look at the Docutils docs and count the references to
> --gnu-style-long-options.  I agree that it's quite convenient to be able
> to insert en-/em-dashes using ASCII hyphens, but the drawbacks are
> simply too big, given that '--' occurs so frequently.

I believe I have been largely restricting my argument to the em dash,
as above, since it is a much more common desire.

> And, after all, the unicode directive in conjunction with the :trim:
> option provides a workaround if you want to stick to ASCII.

Ugly but effective.  ;-)

Cheers,
Alan Isaac