Re: em-dashes

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From: Richard Stevens
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1989 14:20

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In article <1168@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>, jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) writes:
> 
> 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?

The "Chicago Manual of Style" says in Section 2.70 that an em-dash
within a sentence should *not* have spaces around it.  Looking at a
couple of random books (Knuth's TEX Book, Webster's 9th Collegiate,
4.3BSD book) shows this rule to be followed by most authors.

	Richard Stevens
	Health Systems International, New Haven, CT
	   stevens@hsi.com
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From: stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens)
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Subject: Re: em-dashes
Summary: Chicago Manual of Style says no space
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Date: 6 Jul 89 14:20:19 GMT
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