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Old 07-25-2014, 05:05 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by AlexBell View Post
I end to use Lorem ipsum dolor sit –’
In English books, I use " – " in the middle of a sentence and "—" (no spaces) at the beginning or end:

Bla – foo – bar, ‘Nevermore—’ quoth the raven.

An alternate style would be:

" – " -> "—"
"&mdash" -> "——"

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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
As you can see, they even use   before colons, and question marks.
Yes, every "double" sign. Some crappy magazines don't even use non-breaking spaces, and you find the question mark alone at the beginning of a line!

For best effect, use & #8239; (narrow no-break space).
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