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Originally Posted by DNSB
And yet, the AP style guide states that a space on each side of the em dash is required.
Jon, at some point in time, you will need to realize that just because it's not being done the way you would prefer, that it is not wrong. Unless you can provide images of the stone tablets you brought down from the mountain with those rules on them, please stop trying to make your opinions sound like authoritative facts.
Note the en dash between Vancouver/Victoria is used in the sense 'to' much as in Monday–Friday. So it can be correct to mix en and em dashes in the same sentence, even an en dash with no spaces.
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I totally agree, but I would also point out that AP is a written (paper) standard… unless it’s changed in the last X-moons since I read it, I don’t think it has an electronic publication section???
The technique of having a non-breaking space before the en dash, and a regular space after, would at least anchor the dash to the previous word… it’d look awfully funny if the dash were at the beginning of a line with the last part of the word.