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Old 01-31-2025, 07:21 AM   #3377
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
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.
I convert en dashes to em dashes and remove the spaces. I also convert . . . to an ellipsis with no extra space.

I don't know where some people learned typesetting, but they failed the course.

One other thing I'd like to get rid of is a single quote for speech. It should be a double quote for speech.
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