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Old 01-10-2014, 08:55 AM   #1
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suspended hyphen constructs

not a sigil question per se, but as this as a great place for expert typesetting type advice...

phrases like
bell- book- andcandle

which I just encountered in a retail book
( the sentence is: Well, I don’t want any of this bell-book-andcandle, incense-burning, medieval rubbish. )

or more generally, word1- word2 -andword3

crop up now & again & retail quality books.

It looks wrong to me not to have a space between "and" & the final word, but is it actually valid & not sloppy proofreading ? It is an awkward question to google.

& ideally is this a situation for using dash, endash, or emdash & with or without spaces ?

more examples here:
http://editingandwritingservices.com/suspended-hyphens/
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