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Article #12565Re: Hyphens, Ens or Ems?
From: Thomas Phinney
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 22:56
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 22:56
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I like Esmond's option #3 for setting the em dash, using thin spaces. Personally, when designing fonts, I usually create my em dashes with space on either side, and in any case I kern all my dashes extensively against everything else, especially numbers. The space within the em-dash glyph is not common Adobe practice, however, since some people want to be able to put multiple em-dashes together to make a solid rule. T
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