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[Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen]

Den 16.02.2009 kl. 11:43 skrev Emma Jane Hogbin <emma at hicktech.com>:

> 2. With the use of the word "web" these three items seems inconsistent:
> # website or site, not web-site or web site
> # homepage, not home page
> # web page
>
> I personally use: Web (with a cap) plus whatever it is. For example: Web
> site; Web page. It seems odd that "website" is one word but "web page"
> is two.

Compound nouns in English are massively confusing (at least to this  
non-native speaker). Cowboy and cornflakes, but laser pistol and flux  
capacitor. Trust the dictionary and it says website and web page (no  
caps). It sounds odd, but language usually is.

> 3. Don't use double hyphens; use the HTML entity.
> And then about ten paragraphs later they use a double dash instead of
> the HTML entity. Realistically I think there are very few who will take
> the time to memorize the entity (I know I wimp out and use the double  
> dash).

I'm in the camp is supporting "correct" (traditional?) typography because  
it aids reading and skimming. At the same time people are generally lazy.  
Would something like http://drupal.org/project/typogrify assist in  
automatically converting lazy typing into proper typography?

Today's productivity tip: On a mac you can write an em dash by hitting  
Shift+Option+- like so: —
More here:  
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codemac.html

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Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen
http://www.solitude.dk/