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Well-meaning can vary if you don't put spaces around your dashes, and a well—meaning writer wants to ease the job of the reader. ıt might simpıy not matter tho
by scottyeager 2y ago
Well-meaning can vary if you don't put spaces around your dashes, and a well—meaning writer wants to ease the job of the reader.
ıt might simpıy not matter though, a miııimeter here and there, ı suppose.
- rkosk 2y agoThe difference in dash length really doesn't matter and your example is not the same at all, but it probably made you feel really smart.
- MindBeams 2y agoDid you mix those up on purpose?
- roryokane 2y agoAn excellent example of why dash length matters. Because of the wrong usage of ‘—’ and ‘-’, it took me 10 more seconds of rereading and re-parsing your comment to understand what that first sentence meant. I see what you did in the second paragraph too. It’s another example of “a millimeter of difference in the length of a line” mattering in that it looks weird, though it’s not much harder to read.
- scottyeager 2y agoThe undotted small "i" character comes from the modern Turkish alphabet. It's perhaps only slightly disorienting for an English reader to slightly shorten some letters that are just lines in a sans-serif font. In Turkish though, a millimeter of line can make an entirely different letter. Being able to render a variety of line lengths with different meanings is a cool and useful thing.