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Standardize on em dashes #2155

Open JanelleJenstad opened 3 years ago

JanelleJenstad commented 3 years ago

We have been inconsistent in our use of em dashes and double hyphens. @martindholmes and I noted that "There are 89 instances of double-hyphens in the TEI source files, some of which look like they would have to be retained (because they're part of some formal system such as a keyword taxonomy, or they're exemplifying how to create a comment), but most of which could be changed to em dashes. There are 317 instances of actual em dashes, so they are the majority."

With @martindholmes walking me through the process, I made three edits on the dev branch. I will continue this work in my own branch and update the style guide.

sydb commented 3 years ago

Not sure I see a need to be using a separate branch, here (except for practice).

JanelleJenstad commented 3 years ago

I'm making a branch only because I need the practice.

trishaoconnor commented 1 month ago

I'm resuming @JanelleJenstad and @martindholmes's work on this ticket with @sydb's guidance. I have saved the changes directly to dev.

I have saved changes from double hyphens to em dashes to the following files within Source/Specs/*xml:

<term>United States -- Politics and government —
<term>Bien et mal -- Enseignement coranique</term>

Also, I changed double hyphens to em dashes in the following files within Source/Guidelines/en/*.xml:

- [ ] HD-Header.xml
English literature -- History and criticism -- Data processing. English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. English language -- Style -- Data processing. Style, Literary -- Data processing. United States -- Politics and government — ``` And lastly, I changed the double hyphens to em dashes in the HD-Header.xml within `Source/Guidelines/fr/*.xml` - [ ] HD-Header.xml ```` Littérature anglaise -- Histoire et critique -- Traitement des données. Littérature anglaise -- Histoire et critique -- Théorie, etc. Langue anglaise -- Style -- Traitement des données. Style, Littérature -- Traitement des données. États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement -- Révolution, 1775-1783 ``` `