From: Peter Toft <pto@sslug.dk>
To: Tammy Fox <tfox@redhat.com>
Cc: <docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: -- in pdf
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 23:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107210806030.1126-100000@k6.sslug> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010720220443.A17320@redhat.com>
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Tammy Fox wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed that db2pdf makes -- (double dashes) an emdash in the
> resulting PDF file?
>
> I have tried to solve this by replacing -- with
> ‐ ‐
> ‐‐
> ‐ ‐
>
> but they all end up translating to - - (dash space dash) in HTML.
>
> I need to be able to produce both PDF and HTML.
>
> –– seems to make a really small space between the dashing,
> but it is not really noticable in PDF or HTML.
>
> Does anybody have a solution to this?
I will forward you the last thread on this subject.
--
Peter Toft, Ph.D. [pto@sslug.dk] http://www.sslug.dk/~pto
You are not alone. The penguins are everywhere.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-20 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-20 19:04 Tammy Fox
2001-07-20 23:17 ` Peter Toft [this message]
2001-07-20 23:18 ` Hugo van der Kooij
2001-07-22 15:04 ` Timothy Reaves
2001-07-22 15:09 ` Hugo van der Kooij
2001-07-21 1:40 ` Tim Waugh
2001-07-21 9:33 ` Tammy Fox
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