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> Em dashes are also used for attribution after a quote I believe the correct code point for quotation attribution is U+2015 HORIZONTAL BAR: > The Unicode sta
by wwalexander 3y ago
> Em dashes are also used for attribution after a quote
I believe the correct code point for quotation attribution is U+2015 HORIZONTAL BAR:
> The Unicode standard introduced a separate character U+2015 ― HORIZONTAL BAR to be used as a quotation dash. It may be the same length as an em-dash, which is often used instead. Some software will insert a line break after an em-dash, but not after a quotation dash.
― https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Quotation_dash https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Quotation_das...
- o11c 3y agoI was talking about attribution, not obscure (apparently standard in some languages, but not in English) quote styles. Attribution (including signatures) is always an actual em dash. —o11c
- wwalexander 3y agoI don’t know what you mean by “obscure quote styles”. Did you read the link? You’ll see that it includes > Em-dash, an alternative to the quotation dash You confidently asserted the em-dash as the correct choice for quotation attribution which, if not outright incorrect, is certainly not the most or the only canonical choice. Nothing obscure in style about it!
- LegionMammal978 3y agoThe point is that a "quotation dash" (i.e., a dash that precedes a quotation, used in place of or accompanying quotation marks in many languages, as your link explains) is not the same thing as the dash used for quotation attributions. An em-dash is an alternative to a proper quotation dash when used to precede a quotation, but is generally itself considered the proper dash for attribution [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Attribution_of_quote_source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Attribution_of_quote_sour...
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- wwalexander 3y agoI stand corrected!