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Originally Posted by HarryT
My personal preference, when dealing with plain ASCII, is to indicate an em-dash with "--" with no spaces around it. This is the PG "standard" and works well, because it can very easily then be converted into a proper em-dash with a search and replace in an editor.
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So how do they write what in LaTeX is written as --? That is used for ranges, e.g. 5--10. Or does this distinction only exist in TeX/LaTeX? It is an important distinction since when you have digit the -- should be placed higher than for an emdash.