[tdwg-content] canonical name for named hybrid &infragenericnames [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Gregor Hagedorn g.m.hagedorn at gmail.com
Mon Dec 13 16:57:18 CET 2010


>  "H.3A.1.  The multiplication sign ×, indicating the hybrid nature
>  of a taxon, should be placed so as to express that it belongs
>  with the name or epithet but is not actually part of it. [...]
>  should depend on what best serves readability."

My reading of this would be that a non-breaking space, possibly
narrower, would satisfy both this statement and correct typographic
typesetting (which does not endorse "M. ×piperita" -- the
multiplication sign is designed to be used with spacing).

Gregor


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