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Originally Posted by Jellby
Not so easy when you have different possibilities:
and yet—and yet -> and yet – and yet (a punctuating dash)
a bur—a hobbit -> a bur— a hobbit (a dash marking an incomplete word or speech).
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i don't follow your examples - sorry.
can you try again with a "for dummies version" please.
I have often successfully flipped the emdash and endash approaches with no problem.
I believe one is the UK publishers standard & the other is the USA standard but I forget which way around they go.
replacing space+endash+space with emdash seems a safe replace-all command to me
replacing the tacky double dash--as found in some old books is also straightforward - it only occurs in text, not in any XML declarations.