EM or EN usage <NIGHTMARE> !

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

Dan Gallagher reported: <<A year ago I switched from a life of using a 
PC to using a Macintosh (more Quark ext. available for Macs). I love 
the Mac now.>>

Or you can have the best of both worlds if your Mac is new and fast; 
I'm using primarily a Mac, but running Virtual PC (to drive Windows XP 
Pro) on it so I can work in RoboHelp. Works like a charm. Of course, it 
runs much slower than a real PC, but since I got VPC free when I 
upgraded Office, I figured, why not use it? It's fast enough for my 
needs, though it might not be with Quark.

<<Anyway, when I transported all my pc created files over to the Mac, 
each and every EM dash turned into an enyay (Spanish n with a tilde 
over it). At first I didn't know what caused this.>>

Seems a bit odd. I've transferred files with en and em dashes with no 
problem. All I can figure is that you've got a font mismatch of some 
sort, since Macs and PCs use different high-end ASCII character codes 
to accomplish the same symbol.

<< am still being plaqued by them to this day, a year later. Apparently 
different keystrokes are used on each computer to create these nasty 
hyphens. I had to change all of them in hundreds and hundreds and 
hundreds of pages of docunentation, graphic files and tables.>>

Doesn't Quark have a search and replace function? Provided that there's 
no Spanish in your documents, it should be easy to make the change 
globally.

--Geoff Hart   ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca
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