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Old 03-09-2011, 07:49 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Jadon View Post
I prefer an endash with spaces to either side of it over an emdash with none. Yes, it will have some issues – it can break such that a line starts with the dash – but it still looks better than the huge gap oft-produced with emdashes. Until most reading software can handle hyphenation, it's a choice one's stuck with.
I agree. I've been using the English style (space / endash / space) since I first discovered how badly the Kindle handled the American standard emdash. It looks good to me.

Having a line start or end with a dash is no problem. It happens in typeset books, though of course one would prefer the latter.
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