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I use en dash and em dash quite a bit. To make them I employ both the calibre snippets and also .XCompose. I found out to my horror from a prior post reply that Amazon will not recognize the em dash, so I fudge it by 'running together' 3 regular dashes with a span whose spacing has been reduced. I use the triple sometimes to surround page numbers at bottom of PDF pages. You can set up an .XCompose file in Home and use it elsewhere (not just calibre tag editor). While in calibre I prefer using snippets for en and em dashes. I break USA convention (if, indeed, those rules still apply) by separating like this: text space en dash space text. That is, I do not allow the en dash to touch text (as is the convention). I find that it is even worse looking when done as follows: text comma en dash space text. This was done frequently a century ago by many authors. Or, maybe the type setter did this. I use the triple dash like this for mid-chapter centered scene breaks: em dash space scene space em dash. Best regards, Pop
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