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From: jholt@adobe.COM (Joe Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Leading dashes in menu items.
Message-ID: <3077@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jun 90 16:41:20 GMT
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Reply-To: jholt@adobe.com (Joe Holt)
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
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The standard Apple MDEF in systems 6.0.x will display a single dash as a
single dash if the dash item also has an icon or command key equivalent.
Unfortunately it does not test if the dash is the only character
(otherwise adding a space would be a nice work-around).

I think using an en-dash or em-dash is a good alternative.

joe holt