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Originally Posted by Toxaris
In some typography a dash at the beginning of the line can also mean start of a dialogue. So, there is more than one use for the dash at the beginning.
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But in that case the emdash would be immediately preceded by a newline - wouldn't it?
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Originally Posted by nabsltd
I've never seen a typeset book (where things like line breaks are manually controlled) where an em-dash immediately preceded by a letter starts a line, with the letter on the previous line.
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My emphasis. I read that as being in respect of a 'hot metal typeset to paper' book.
I've often seen the emdash at the end of dialogue (to indicate interrupted speech) dropped to a new line, even though its coded as
“Blah blah blah—” it appears as
“Blah blah blah
—”
rather than
“Blah blah
blah—”
I've never seen an ellipsis (used to indicate incomplete speech) dropped to a new line in the same way.
I first saw it in DISOSS and PROFS - in pre-historic times. It's long been my belief that just because IBM made a blunder in their code, some others have been doing the same ever since. Contagion or inheritance - take your pick.
BR