-- in pdf

[Peter Toft]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Tammy Fox wrote:

> Has anyone else noticed that db2pdf makes -- (double dashes) an emdash in the
> resulting PDF file?
>
> I have tried to solve this by replacing -- with
> ‐ ‐
> ‐‐
> ‐ ‐
>
> but they all end up translating to - - (dash space dash) in HTML.
>
> I need to be able to produce both PDF and HTML.
>
> –– seems to make a really small space between the dashing,
> but it is not really noticable in PDF or HTML.
>
> Does anybody have a solution to this?

I will forward you the last thread on this subject.

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