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Originally Posted by frabjous
In my experience, there are two common styles. One is to use em dashes—but without spaces—for interrupting text, and the other is to use en dashes – but with spaces – for interrupting text.
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That's my impression too, though not being a native English speaker/reader I might be wrong.
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Originally Posted by charleski
Since some readers don't recognise either form of dash as a word-boundary, I prefer spaced en-dashes to prevent awkward line-breaks.
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Exactly my situation as well, I started using space-endash-space in my books because the mobi reader in my Cybook did not break at em-dashes.
Now I find the opposite situation in Adobe's ePUB engine: it breaks at em-dashes, which is wrong in Spanish typography, where dashes are typically spaced only on one side (the "outer" side), and line breaks are only allowed at the spaces.
Oh... ellipses I don't use, because I prefer dots separated by non-breaking spaces en English, and just three dots in Spanish. As for entities, I use them (instead of the unicode characters) when I can't easily enter them with my keyboard configuration, or when they are not clearly identifiable in monospaced fonts.