[vip_students] Re: The 'n dash' Sign

  • From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
  • To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 12:18:37 +0100

Tony,
These symbols are available by Microsoft word, Insert symbols dialogue. In that dialogue, you have several different pages or lists. You can assign your own shortcut key to a special symbol, or use a key that is already there. the person sending the email may have been using Microsoft word as their email editor, such as is allowed in Microsoft outlook.
Now, let's try - . (That was a 'long' dash, produced on the numberpad by turning the numlock on, then typing (alt) 0151. Now - shorter, numlock on, (alt) 0150.
----- Original Message ----- From: "tony sweeney" <deirton711@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 11:48 AM
Subject: [vip_students] Re: The 'n dash' Sign



John,

Yes you largely get my drift indeed.
It looks though that in emails I receive from a source lately the endash is a sign of one character, if you get my drift, so how do you creat it?
Tony----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John O'Regan" <john.a.oregan@xxxxxxxxx>

To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 11:34 AM
Subject: [vip_students] Re: The 'n dash' Sign



Dear Tony,

 There's the en dash and the em dash.  The en dash is a hyphen the
width of the letter n and the em dash... well, you get the idea.

 If you're writing a HTML document, use the HTML entities &ndash; and
&mdash; for en and em dash respectively.  Hope this helps,

later,
John

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