Cleanup Text - radial menu option question

[Varsuuk]

"... one of the living—moving at their slow, ..." [NOTE: In case viewers with other charsets are not seeing it right, this is a "long dash"]

gets changed to:
"... one of the living-moving at their slow, ..."

Which, I suppose is happening because whatever that symbol was from the PDF, it is problematic for some viewers or character-sets?
I assume I should obey the menu option because it likely "knows things" I do not ;)

In that case, I will change it to:
"... one of the living--moving at their slow, ..."

to at least try to duplicate the intended text in a "generic" (if not as pretty) way. Thoughts/recommendations on other choices?

[Moon Wizard]

Yes, all dash types are converted to regular dashes to minimize font/coding issues. Changing to double dash may not be desired for text being parsed, since long dashes are often used for minus text (i.e. -X).

Regards,
JPG

[Varsuuk]

Thanks Moon.

So I will remove all encountered cut-n-paste instances of "—". I wasn't clear on what you means by:


...Changing to double dash may not be desired for text being parsed, since long dashes are often used for minus text (i.e. -X). ...

I want to honor the author's intent to put some sort of seperator here. If you mean that "—" is interpreted as a "-" by whatever is parsing, then placing a single "-" would be no better. But perhaps looks better than my suggested 2 dash?

To recap, this is for TEXT sections of Story entries and/or Reference pages - not for anything in what I think should be parsable like "Notes" fields in SWADE or in Effects strings etc. This is just for "adventure text".

So, any pref between:
A) "... one of the living—moving at their slow, ..." --> REJECTED due to your explanation that is can cause "font/coding issues"
B) "... one of the living-moving at their slow, ..." --> What "Cleanup Text" changes it to automatically...
C) "... one of the living - moving at their slow, ..." --> Changed cleanup to add space before/after so it doesn't look like a "hyphenated word" - the author is apparantly useding it for a "pause" effect instead (? I am not good with 45+ years ago English Composition terms.)
D) "... one of the living--moving at their slow, ..." --> Like cleanup, but using 2 dashes to not confuse with hyphenation
E) "... one of the living -- moving at their slow, ..." --> Like D, but added spacing before/after - wanted to see what people thought conveyed intent better D or E.

>I< tend to put " - " in between a statement and "clarification", so I guess (C) would work in duping that. But I am no paragon of writing - I'd prefer not to use ME for the "example" ;) of how to best write something. AMIRITE?

[damned]

I doubt that the author had any intent.
Many applications change the - to a different dash depending on what character is typed next.
Ive never understood why there would be a dash in that situation without spacers pre and post as its not a "living-moving" its something living that is moving...
Unless ofc it is a "living-moving" and then just ignore me...

[Varsuuk]

Ah i didn’t know that about the app changing -s thing.

I am in bed atm, was a long day. But looking again at another of the PDFs for this I see it appears a lot and it seems to be spaced like this:

“A word— another word”
Interesting, I typed 2 dashes this time it made that LONG dash!

A — word
Hmm here too with space before and after. So yeah, it is the app as you said at least converting 2 - into a long one.

If did single dash, it doesn’t do it:
A word- another word.

Anyhow, here is some concrete examples. It appears the intent is dash followed by space but when I use one dash it doesn’t look as “good” (to me) as 2dash+<space> I’ll prob go that route (ironically, not one of the A-E)

Ok sleeping now cos I’m delirious ;)
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