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Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

Title:Online Bookbuilding
Notice:This conference is write-locked: see note 1.3.
Moderator:VAXUUM::UTT
Created:Fri Aug 12 1988
Last Modified:Mon Jul 15 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:440
Total number of notes:2134

310.0. "Hyphen disappears in title" by DICKNS::ROSE () Tue Apr 03 1990 18:29

    We are producing a book that has a hyphen in the title (System-Building
    etc.) When we process this book for the bookreader, the hyphen
    disappears. It's fine for hardcopy. 
    
    We're using DOCUMENT V2.1B. Has anyone heard of this?
    
    Betsy
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Name		DateLines
310.1V1.2BDICKNS::ROSETue Apr 03 1990 18:311
    Sorry --- we're obviously using V1.2B.
310.2Same again?MARVIN::KNOWLESintentionally Rive GaucheWed Apr 04 1990 04:2811
    Looks like a problem that's been discussed in another note, to do with
    symbols not showing up properly.  In that case, the problem was with
    the fonts; in some future release of Bookreader it would go away.
    
    .0 observation seems to be related to one that I made when looking
    on line at a Style Guide.  The text spelt out the differences between
    a hyphen and an en-dash, and said how to code them with DOCUMENT.
    Unfortunately the examples of output showed the two as being identical
    (or maybe it was just my eyes).
    
    b
310.3This is a new one...CLOSET::UTTWed Apr 04 1990 18:5119
    Betsy,
    
    Would you send me the .SDML file for the title page that is losing
    its hyphen? 
    
    The char set that DECwindows uses (ISO-Latin1) has *only* a hyphen,
    no en- or em-dashes, so dashes are telescoped down into hyphens.
    That is, coding -, --, or --- all result in hyphens (-) online.
    (The dashes are considered publishing characters and eventually
    publishing fonts will  be supported in DECwindows and then we
    can have dashes back.)
    
    I realize that only explains the hyphens that *are* displayed.
    I know of no reason why any should *not* be displayed, so send
    your file and I'll take a look.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Mary