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Re: A typesetting question.
Posted:
Feb 17, 2013 3:54 PM
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James Waldby wrote:
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> On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:02:39 +0000, Frederick Williams wrote:
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> > In something like "Church-Turing thesis", what is that "-"?
> > Specifically, am I right in thinking that in TeX is should be "--" and
> > not "-"? If Church-Turing was one person with a hyphenated surname,
> > then it would be"-", right?
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> Yes, although some sources say differently, according to wikipedia at
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Relationships_and_connections>:
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> A "simple" attributive compound is written with a hyphen; at least one
> authority considers name pairs, where the paired elements carry equal
> weight, as in the Taft-Hartley Act to be "simple",[11] while others
> consider an en dash appropriate in instances such as this[14][15][16]
> to represent the parallel relationship, as in the McCainâFeingold bill
> or BoseâEinstein statistics. However, truly compound names are written
> with a hyphen, thus the Lennard-Jones potential is named after one
> person, while Bose and Einstein are two people.
>
> <http://web.science.mq.edu.au/~rdale/resources/writingnotes/latexstyle.html#dashes>
> has a table showing latex -, $-$, --, --- for dash, minus, en-dash, and
> em-dash, respectively
Thank you.
--
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by
this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting
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