From b76783b7a8404e297c65a5607892051a0a54e17b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason LaPorte Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2013 08:31:41 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] GitHub markdown doesn't like dashes, so I switched to Unicode en- and em-dashes. --- README.md | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 20dcc2d3..ec4be88b 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ producing textual weather summaries][2] from its weather data. These summaries have always been in English (since that's the only language we know) and have always been procedurally generated (since there are so many possible weather conditions). Procedural generation makes translating these summaries into other -languages especially difficult, because the naive approach--using a table -lookup to replace an English sentence with one of a different language--becomes +languages especially difficult, because the naive approach—using a table +lookup to replace an English sentence with one of a different language—becomes impractical, requiring a *very* large table to support! [1]: https://developer.forecast.io/ @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ When translating text summaries, please keep the following in mind: * It is simpler to maintain one version of a language than two: **avoid dialectal or regional variations** if at all possible. (For example, we try to maintain one version of English, despite the several major, distinct - English variants--American English, British English, etc. We have had to + English variants—American English, British English, etc. We have had to alter terminology a few times to avoid generating insulting summaries!) * **Try to keep the text as natural as possible,** so that it is easily intelligible to an average reader. (Yes, we know this conflicts with @@ -431,9 +431,9 @@ desired). In each of the below precipitation types, the intensity of precipitation is (very approximately) as follows: -* `"very-light-X"`: 0--0.4 mm/hr -* `"light-X"`: 0.4--2.5 mm/hr -* `"medium-X"`: 2.5--10 mm/hr +* `"very-light-X"`: 0–0.4 mm/hr +* `"light-X"`: 0.4–2.5 mm/hr +* `"medium-X"`: 2.5–10 mm/hr * `"heavy-X"`: 10 mm/hr Snow intensities are (also very approximately) one-third of these. (That is,