Multiple Choice Xara Quiz

[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 (— for an em dash or – 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]

[Erik Heyninck]

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

[rheaton]

Didn't know...

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

Me neither, Bill! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

from the Xealot- "EM Em's are used to measure tracking and kerning. One 'em' is the width of the character 'M' in the current font and font size. Hence, it is a relative measurement - changing the font or size, changes the absolute value. EM is also applied to long dashes (—) known as EM dashes. EN's are similar but are the width of a capital N. EN dashes (–) are similar to EM dashes but are not as wide. "

Gary, do I get credit for four out of five?

[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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[rheaton]

What happens then? New contract?