Talk:Hyphen-minus
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word wrapping of hyphen-minuses
[edit]It does occur, unlike the same for minus signs (most notably, in the form of unary minus). There were on-wiki discussions at user talk: Stigmatella_aurantiaca/Archive 1 #non-breaking_hyphens and a followup at WT: Manual of Style/Archive 129 #Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Numbers (and some nearby threads). IMHO it is an important point in distinguishing between hyphens and minus signs. Can anybody search for reliable sources? Incnis Mrsi (talk) 12:17, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
Rather predictably en.Wikipedia is so Wikipedian. Instead of addressing the thing unambiguously important for the topic specified, user:Chris55, user:Tharos, and user:JoeHebda developed together a decent paragraph on sorts of dashes which the article is not at all about. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 12:55, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
- Is there some context for these comments, or why you pinged me here? The trouble with the hyphen-minus is that it dates from the days of ASCII, when it was the only character available for hyphen, minus, and dashes of all sorts. Since hyphen is most common, that's mainly what it's for. But in programming, the minus sign is most important, and (alsmost) all programming languages develop with ASCII (and older character sets with the same limitation), so to programmers it's firmly established as minus sign. This didn't matter much when characters were all the same width, like on typewriters and old computer screens, but typographically it has put us into quite a mess. Go back to 1984 and read The Mac is not a Typewriter, or its followon The PC is not a Typewriter to see how people have struggled with this in the era of personal computers. Dicklyon (talk) 16:21, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
- Ah, I see you edited it to say not me, but these other editors; I still don't see what you refer to. Something that happened between 2012 and 2018? Dicklyon (talk) 16:43, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
Second most popular article on wikipedia
[edit]How is this the second most popular article on wiki, after the main page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.85.39.6 (talk) 03:23, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
- See User talk:West.andrew.g/Popular pages/Archive 3#Hyphen-Minus, Wikipedia talk:Top 25 Report/Archive 4#New data source; documentation help needed, and phab:T150990. --Ahecht (TALK
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fixed-pitch or typewriter font
[edit]The claim that there is no difference [between - and –] is partially false and partially undefined.
For monospace:
- (hyphen-minus) – (en dash)
I see the dash to appear ∼ 2× longer than the hyphen. What do you see?
As for “typewriter font”, which typewriters have a key – distinct from -? Please, show one, and this part of the claim could be restored. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 17:35, 11 September 2019 (UTC)