[comp.text] Phone-number notation

wtho@cgchd2.cgch.uucp (Tom Hofmann) (02/14/89)

From article <50398@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, by Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram):
> In article <50292@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, horne-scott@CS.Yale.EDU (Scott Horne) writes:
>> 3) I write telephone numbers in the following manner:  203 436-1756.
>> How should I do that in TeX?  `203~436--1756'?
> 
> Seems reasonable.

My suggestion is `203~436-1756' (use a hyphen, not a dash or minus sign).

Tom Hofmann	wtho@cgch.uucp