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by Karellen 1041 days ago
Took me a while to parse that headline. I was trying to figure out what "land-publishing" was.

I realise that most typographic style guides recommend not putting spaces around em-dashes which separate clauses in a sentence, but I always have trouble distinguishing between em-dashes and hyphens in most fonts. As a result, I often mistake non-spaced em-dashed clauses with hyphenated words, leading to confusion.

I note that the original article does not use the word "land" anywhere at all; not in the title, nor the body. The un-editorialised headline "Publish Everything (Pretty Much)" is (IMO) much clearer.

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Except that’s an en-dash, not an em-dash. So it’s still confusing even if you can distinguish the latter from a hyphen.

Though it’s only Android fonts that make hyphen the same length as the en-dash.