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Subject: Re: en dash
From: Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:51:08 -0400




Sean Brierley wrote:

Ahhh, that explains it! I use em dashes a lot, the
traditional way with no spaces. But, I've seen the
spance-endash-space approach, and was curious about
it. But, does Chicago approve? And, if that variance
is acceptable, what about using regular dashes for
number ranges and linking contrasting words?


Sean,

Some publishers have a house style of space en dash space for the grammatical dash (Cambridge University Press is one, IIRC). Other publishers allow the book designer to specify that option if it looks better in the selected text font.

This does not affect the use of the solid en dash for ranges and other joins. Where it can present a problem is in work with a lot of arithmetic expressions in running text (a - b, for example). Here, care must be taken to use a different space value--thins for the grammatical dash, ens for the arithmetic minus sign.

Dick

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