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Old 05-27-2020, 03:07 AM   #112
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Every style guide I know of (with the exception of the Associated Press style guide) states that there should be no spaces between an em dash and the adjacent words.
US style is em-dash, no spaces—like this.

UK style is a spaced en-dash – like this (except in number ranges: pages 80–81).

Some publishers do use spaced em dashes though, not that common.

I do dashes manually by S&R, as there is often a mix of hyphens and various dashes, spaced or unspaced. And then spend a while fixing ellipses, since I prefer spaced periods.

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