Talk:Baire-Osgood Theorem

"Baire-Osgood Theorem" (with a hyphen) should be a redirect to "Baire–Osgood Theorem" (with an en-dash)--Kahen 07:51, 1 May 2012 (EDT)

No, the en-dash version should (as is now) be a redirect to the hyphenated version. --prime mover 04:30, 1 May 2012 (EDT)

We have sacrificed formal grammatical correctness for ease of typing in this part of house style. Oh, and please sign your contributions to talk pages with your signature (which is the wiggly sign, third from the right in the top edit bar); thanks in advance. Keep up the good work, we hope you have a good time here at PW. --Lord_Farin 04:42, 1 May 2012 (EDT)

It's a good point: how do you render an endash in this context? The only way I know to do it is cut and paste from an existing instance. Or use &endash; in the context of html or whatever. --prime mover 05:34, 1 May 2012 (EDT)

This will tell you all you'd possibly want to know (and more). Alt-0150 works (i.e. keep Alt Gr (left Alt) pressed, type the numbers on the numpad and release Alt Gr — voilá (though that is technically a Alt-0151 em–dash I put up)). But that's still a lot longer than simply typing the hyphen. --Lord_Farin 05:44, 1 May 2012 (EDT)

Indeed - what a silly palaver. Another point to note is that in a MediaWiki text edit field there is no visible difference between an endash and a hyphen.

The only practical advantage I can see to differentiating the two dash styles is to distinguish between a double-barrelled surname and a two-person theorem: Peter Swinnerton-Dyer muddies these particular waters. --prime mover 07:28, 1 May 2012 (EDT)

That's why we generally consider the 'Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture' and not the 'Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture' ;) --Lord_Farin 07:43, 1 May 2012 (EDT)