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Originally Posted by graycyn
I didn't know that, but honestly, I'm with Jon on this. (Though I disagree about no spaces for the ellipsis character.  )
I *hate* em-dashes with spaces. I'm not real crazy about en-dashes with spaces either, but it's tolerable. |
This is to some extent language specific. IIRC j.p.s. is norwegian, and I would suspect they have the same "peculiarities" as we do in danish:
– Only one type of dash (you can use en- or em- as you please, as long as you use the same type consistently), and always surrounded by spaces – except of course in the beginning and end of a paragraph. (The emdash-like character sometimes used to signify dialog is a "horizontal bar", unicode ― – if correctly coded).
– Same goes for ellipsis, except where it acts as a stand-in for a missing part of a word.
Just to clarify …
Regards,
Kim