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Old 10-10-2007, 11:49 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by NatCh View Post
Do the em dashes in question have spaces on either side of them?

I.e. "word — word" vs. "word—word"

The reason I ask is that the absence of spaces may make the parser think it's supposed to be a single word — I think the first is the "technically" proper usage, anyway ....
Space are usually included (or they used to be) in Britain, but in the US the spaces are usually omitted. See the wikipedia article on Dash.
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