Through long habit I usually type en and em dashes by using alt + 0150 or alt + 0151, thus : , .
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*" to connect the Indiana cities of Fort Wayne and Muncie running north-south through the Blackford County "-Em dashes should be unspaced.
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This might be fixed through the use of the HTML entities for en and em dashes : & ndash; and & mdash; respectively.
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Traditionally an em dash like so or spaced em dash like so has been used for a dash in running text.
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In essence, it is an em dash that will not break on the left side but will break on the right side if needed.
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I made quite a few minor proofing changes ( removing spaces from around em dashes and that sort of thing ) as I went.
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The em dash ) . ( When using it to replace a long dash, spaces are needed either side of it like so .)
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The particular issue I have noticed with him is his tendency to replace standard em dashes ( & mdash; ) with a double hyphen (-- ).
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The main difference between them is that at least some software will insert a line break after an em dash, but not after a quotation dash.
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This typewriter convention is still sometimes used today, even though modern computer word processing applications can input the correct en and em dashes for each font type.
