Thread: What is the correct usage on the em dash?
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Old 10-23-2007, 06:46 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by Jadon View Post
The no-space version also hurts wrapping, since most programs treat “one—two” as a single long word. That's a significant issue, depending on screen size and font size. I always edit the HTML files I'm going to convert to IMP format to change [one][emdash][two] style to [one][space][endash][space][two] format for wrapping reasons.
If you use zero width non-joiners you can get the best of both worlds ie:

Code:
‌&emdash;‌
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