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Article #232em-dashes
From: Jim Wright
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1989 04:17
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1989 04:17
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In article <65479@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> leichter@CS.YALE.EDU (Jerry Leichter (LEICHTER-JERRY@CS.YALE.EDU)) writes: [ help with someone else's problem...] | BTW, you might want to look at the actual text being used in this memo and | compare it what the LaTeX book says about various typographical conventions. | For example, read the LaTeX book's discussion of where to use n-dashes (--) | and where to use m-dashes (---). OK, I've wondered for a long time, now I'm going to ask. Should em-dashes have surrounding spaces or "bump-up" against the surrounding words? (1) This might be correct --- but is it? (2) This might be correct---but is it? So which is correct, and why? -- Jim Wright jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!dino!atanasoff!jwright From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: em-dashes Message-ID: <1168@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> Date: 6 Jul 89 04:17:38 GMT References: <65479@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (Jim Wright) Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA Lines: 18