Hyphens in Command Help Strings
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2020 10:32 pm
Currently, there are a lot of strings in the English locale of the type "command-help:" that are formatted like
Crowdin-user "Vainock" pointed out that these hyphens "-" are really bad typographic style and should be replaced by en-dashes "–".
This not only increases the visual distance between command and explanation, but also helps differentiate meaning when the explanatory text itself contains hyphens. The text engine and font used in Factorio should not have problems in dealing with it, since they render more complicated languages just fine.
I believe this should be considered for the English and possibly more locales when doing the polishing work during the 0.18 release cycle, or the latest somewhen in August so it is ready for 1.0 in September.
I started adopting this in the German locale already.
or<argument> <argument> - explanatory text
that are displayed after some- explanatory text
and in total render as/command
to help explain the usage of the console./command <argument> <argument> - explanatory text
Crowdin-user "Vainock" pointed out that these hyphens "-" are really bad typographic style and should be replaced by en-dashes "–".
This not only increases the visual distance between command and explanation, but also helps differentiate meaning when the explanatory text itself contains hyphens. The text engine and font used in Factorio should not have problems in dealing with it, since they render more complicated languages just fine.
I believe this should be considered for the English and possibly more locales when doing the polishing work during the 0.18 release cycle, or the latest somewhen in August so it is ready for 1.0 in September.
I started adopting this in the German locale already.