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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Is it correct to have the em-dash like it is ion the eBook? Does a printed copy of the 1910 edition do the same thing?
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Light is fading quickly here, if I have time and weather is cooperative tomorrow, I'll try and get a few photos of how text appears in the print book so you can see for yourself exactly how it looks in print.
While I plan to try and be true to the printed text, definitely
not planning to retain 1910 era justification and punctuation spacing! It would neither be pretty or practical!
Example (typed including all spacing or lack thereof as seen in print):
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" I shall have to go off early, so there won't be any chance. Yes, there will, — I 'll tell you how to do it. Let me read while I drive up the cows. Squire likes
This bit is from chapter 6, bottom of page 49.
Notice the space between the opening quote and "I". And the space in "I'll" and the LACK of same in "won't" above. This happens throughout the entire book with contractions! Notice the space before and after the em-dash. Double space between sentences. That is how it appears on the page!
But
not in my ebook!
I don't plan to sprinkle the word joiner entity about in the MIDDLE of sentences either, ONLY where sentences END with the abundantly trailing em-dashes. Reflowable text needs to flow, right?
I'd just like to prevent the possibility of LOTS of orphan em-dashes.
*IF* y'all think that's wise! Otherwise, I'll leave 'em be, if they break off, they break off.
I swear, Alcott trails those em-dashes about like ivy down the wall hiding the door in
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett ... thick and heavy
