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Originally Posted by phossler
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
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Was looking for a way/method to change the character being used where a dash was being used that was not in a standardly hyphenated, or compound word but instead was being used to set off a phrase or indicate a pause.
