From: "DJ Chase" <u9000@posteo.mx>
To: "Alejandro Colomar" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>, "groff" <groff@gnu.org>
Cc: "linux-man" <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 3-word compound adjectives; the return of the '-'
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:53:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CNK3O2GGUKYY.32ZNUNK3TNUGM@grinningface> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82b77010-6b42-a58a-f8c7-b977297d6832@gmail.com>
On Wed Oct 12, 2022 at 10:47 AM EDT, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> And now I found one more
> <https://www.editorgroup.com/blog/to-hyphenate-or-not-to-hyphenate/>:
>
> d) block device\[en]based filesystems
>
> Where the en dash is used to distinguish it from 'a block filesystem
> based on a device'.
I’ve seen (and personally use) en-dashes like this, but only when there
is also a hyphen. In this usage, the en-dash is basically just a longer
hyphen. Example:
block-device–based (block-device\[en]based)
Cheers,
--
DJ Chase
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-12 14:47 3-word compound adjectives; the return of the '-' Alejandro Colomar
2022-10-12 15:52 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-10-12 20:14 ` Dave Kemper
2022-10-12 20:50 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-10-12 16:53 ` DJ Chase [this message]
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