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Originally Posted by nabsltd
It shouldn't be. It's punctuation just like any other, and should always "glue" to the previous characters.
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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The space before and after a dash (usually an en dash) is standard in British publications. Perhaps they glue the dash to the spaces, and the spaces to the words, but I doubt it.
I don't know if Donna Leon is much given to dashes, but I will check the book I'm currently reading.