Timeline for Why is conversion of hyphens to dashes in question titles inconsistent?
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| Oct 11, 2011 at 19:39 | vote | accept | Pops | ||
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| May 26, 2011 at 15:33 | comment | added | Hendrik Vogt |
@Grace: Wow-- people really do that? Crazy! But if they do, one shouldn't also encourage them, should one? :-)
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| May 25, 2011 at 17:50 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | @Hendrik I imagine it in part deals with how some people treat the dash in the same way we use a colon: it comes immediately after the last word, but is separated from its denoted context by a space. It's not proper syntax for the dash, but people do it all the same. | |
| May 24, 2011 at 10:18 | comment | added | Hendrik Vogt |
It is interesting that no whitespace before the -- is required; strange asymmetry.
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| May 23, 2011 at 19:47 | comment | added | Pops | True, but my goal was to find out why the team chose the algorithm they did. You've described the algorithm admirably, but not the thought process behind why they chose it and not some other logic. | |
| May 23, 2011 at 19:45 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | @Popular It answers the "why" of "Why does it show two hyphens sometimes, and dashes other times?", just not the "why" of "Why does it require a whitespace?". ♪ The latter of which I assume is mostly because that's how many systems implement auto-correct or auto-formatting. In essence, it behaves not unlike most Markdown formatting which requires a whitespace (or certain valid punctuation, which I've proven to be non-functional for this particular scenario). | |
| May 23, 2011 at 19:42 | comment | added | Pops | That is some first water research right there. Have an upvote. Doesn't answer the "why," though. | |
| May 23, 2011 at 19:37 | history | answered | Grace NoteStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |