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Originally Posted by alansplace
I need a pair of regex s&r strings for dashes used where emdashes should have been used?
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What are your rules for 'should have been used'?
I've seem many house rules and personal preferences for those darn things, all the way from "They're old fashioned--don't use them" up to "No space before or after unless ..."
For the dead trees versions, in MS Word I have a macro that does (something like) replace variations of 'space+double dash+space' with an an em-dash and 'number+dash+number' with an en-dash. But again, that's personal style. Sometimes depending on the typeface, I'll do it differently
Paul