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Originally Posted by Quoth
Also US style—an aside—in the sentence, em dashes with no spaces
UK/IRL style – an aside – in the sentence (en dashes spaced, but em used at end of sentences to show interruption, especially in dialogue with no spaces).
On websites or paper I might use non-breaking spaces, or partial size spaces, but not in ebooks. I do use … character not . . . (triple periods with or without spaces, ideally smaller width, which only works reliably on paper) in ebooks.
I've seen every sort of madness, often inconsistently in the same book, so we have our own set of rules. Other people are free to use their own rules or any of the published style guides, except every published style guide I've seen is for paper. Also the US rules might seem odd to right-side-of-pond readers and vice versa, especially when local spelling is used.
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Consistency is all. Because it's true--there are different styles, in different geographic locations, in different publishing houses, and on and on and on.
Hitch