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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Another rant is when books pat spaces before and after em dash, end dash. ellipsis. That looks so wrong.
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Spaces around an em dash is blasphemy. Spaces around en dashes are accepted practice. And a lot of people rather than inserting an ellipsis seem to feel 3 periods with or without separating spaces is an acceptable substitute. IMNSHO, that is not an acceptable substitute.