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Old 04-12-2010, 10:37 PM   #4
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The Chicago Manual of Style recommends em-dashes without spaces, and the style originated with US publishers. Bringhurst recommends en-dashes spaced from the text, this originated with Penguin in the UK. But there's certainly a lot of crossover.

Since some readers don't recognise either form of dash as a word-boundary, I prefer spaced en-dashes to prevent awkward line-breaks.
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