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Originally Posted by Quoth
Compose --- = — em dash
I must add that to our inhouse style guide with a warning where hyphen, en, em and minus are explained.
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Good luck with that. One of the first things I do when I get a new ms is check all the hyphens and dashes (and quotemarks and ellipses).
I see incorrect dash/hyphens all the time in professionally published books now.
And almost every ebook.
The hot lead typesetters are turning in their graves....