[vip_students] Re: The 'n dash' Sign

  • From: "tony sweeney" <deirton711@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 12:44:46 +0100

Flor,

I'm sure that it was sent in Outlook.

It's all becoming a lot clearer now but to compound matters I use a laptop!

I do have Word 2007.

Ta, tony
----- Original Message ----- From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx> 
To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 12:18 PM
Subject: [vip_students] Re: The 'n dash' Sign



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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