Thread: Punctuation rules of thumb?
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Old 05-21-2021, 02:18 PM   #50
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
For an oddity, my wife ran into an book that showed the rectangular box on her ereader with her default font in quite a few spots. Changing fonts, the character showed as what looked close to an em dash. When she asked WTF is this, I dug into the ebook and found the author instead of using an em dash had used the straightness character ( 0x23E4 ⏤ ).
That's one thing I've never encountered. But then ChareInk probably has that character. So maybe I have and just don't know it.

What book is this that's doing this with the em dash?
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