I suppose that I really should explain 2 things:
1. I started writing about 30 years ago, so I have lots of books converted to html more than a decade ago, when plain vertical quotes were the only option available – sloping quotes just did not render properly on most displays. So this simple method applies to html files with old-fashioned code that specifically avoided sloping quotes.
2. Every writer finds a "voice", which is just a preferred method of handling grammatical rules. I personally never use em-dashes abutting words—I find it ugly. I use lots of en-dashes – like this – but always separated by spaces. So my method avoids seeking out occurrences that I know will never happen. So it works FOR ME because I know what my files contain.
...but it may help other old farts...
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