Multiple Choice Xara Quiz

[gwpriester]

Find the answers to this quiz (and more) in this month's

WebXealot #33

January Xara X Step-by-step Tutorial

Derek Cooper - January Featured Artist Gallery

Newton Florentino's Guest Tutorial #11

The Tip(s) of the Week

<A HREF="http://www.xaraxone.com" TARGET=_blank>And much more...
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As always, comments, suggestions, corrections, etc. are always invited.

Gary

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XaraXone

[Soquili]

...it was an open book test ;-)

Now I know what an — and an – are. But I'm not telling, you'll have to read the WebXealot too.

Soquili

[gwpriester]

Which is your subscriptions to the WebXealot renewed. For free! At least until June.

EMs and ENs are indeed a typographical term and one which I used to use in the old days when there were such things as type houses who used to set our type. We would usually specify paragraph indents in terms of EMs. I'm sure there were other uses as well. And we would note if we wanted an EM dash or and EN dash uses.

I covered this in one of my Typophile articles on Designer.com and while I could not come up with the exact proper usage for the EN vs the EM dash, from observation I concluded an EN dash is used to separate text with a simple space on either side, such as – this, whereas an EM dash is used with no space—like this.

Pete, or Ric, do you know if this is correct?

Gary

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[Soquili]

... oops too many viewings of Wizard of Oz over the holidays ;-)

Isn't an EM a width measurement for type face? Or maybe not. Anyway gets this back to the top ;-)

Soquili

[RTK]

... on the EM.

But January was a good month for the Xone!

Derek's creations were very insiring and so was the tutorial!

Risto

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[pduggan]

Splitting hairs or what?

I was responding to your 'Clue 2. Dash?' and not to the question about the em itself! I mean, I'm hardly likely to have thought you could specify CSS measurements in terms of dashes, am I? Or quoted the entities (&amp;mdash; for an em dash or &amp;ndash; for an en dash) if I thought the em was the dash!

Incidentally (veering off at an even worse tangent!), an em could also be a two letter HTML tag <em> for emphasis. But that's just me being awkward!

Now how about the rest of my prize? [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif[/img]

Peter</p>

Peat Stack or Pete's Tack?</p>

PS Guess it had better be a big Butt Cap after all this... [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

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[pduggan]

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If you can't tell the difference, it's time to upgrade your browser! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif[/img]

Peter</p>

Peat Stack or Pete's Tack?</p>

PS You can specify CSS measurements in ems. And find a website full of dashes at www.petestack.com! Netscape 4 renders the numeric codes (&amp;#8212; and &amp;#8211 correctly but not the entities (&amp;mdash; and &amp;ndash. Opera 6 seems to be the first version of Opera to render dashes correctly at all (instead of substituting hyphens). Now where's my prize? [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

[This message was edited by Peter Duggan on January 15, 2002 at 17:49.]

[rheaton]

1 - Adobe Type Manager
2 - The type of cap used on the end of a line. In this case a squared end that terminates even with the end node.
3 - Continuous tone
4 - Broken or hashed lines.
5 - not a clue. (extreme monotony; like work today!)

[Erik Heyninck]

The Xeaot is still zipped, but it can only be an abbrev for an Electronic Manual.
If not: ask Poirot.