[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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