From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Toft To: Tammy Fox Cc: Subject: Re: -- in pdf Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 23:17:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <20010720220443.A17320@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-q3/msg00004.html 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.