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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The other issue is that the UK needs to standardize.
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Did no-one tell you? We Brits are multi-talented and quite tolerant
- even when some representative of a johnny-come-lately English-speaking nation tells us we're not spelling 'humour' correctly. We can read many varieties of English. Which incarnation should we have standardised on? Middle English? Shakespeare's English? English found in 19th-century Classics? 1940's English? Spelling and punctuation have been evolving ever since the printed word became a Thing and I don't suppose it's going to stop.
On a less frivolous note - I don't have any particular preferences about m-dash (with no spaces) versus n-dash (with spaces) but if you're going to read your books full-justified I believe the latter gives a better result. The more spaces you have on each line the smoother the word-spacing will be.