Comment by dredmorbius
3 years ago
It ... somewhat ... saddens me that HN's parser doesn't distinguish these as Markdown-based comment systems do:
Hyphen: -
En dash: --
Em dash: ---
On usage --- I find the practice of using the em-dash without bounding spaces (typical of most modern style-guides) is visually distracting and more difficult to read than when spaces are provided around the punctuation (as I've done here, and my stylometric stalkers may file as a personal identification tell).
And finally:
- Hyphenated.
- Non-hyphenated.
There is no justice.
Although that allows “hypenated-and-autological”, which is very useful under some circumstances and in frontend.