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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: em-dashes
Message-ID: <1168@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 6 Jul 89 04:17:38 GMT
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Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (Jim Wright)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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In article <65479@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> leichter@CS.YALE.EDU (Jerry Leichter (LEICHTER-JERRY@CS.YALE.EDU)) writes:
	[ help with someone else's problem...]
| BTW, you might want to look at the actual text being used in this memo and
| compare it what the LaTeX book says about various typographical conventions.
| For example, read the LaTeX book's discussion of where to use n-dashes (--)
| and where to use m-dashes (---).

OK, I've wondered for a long time, now I'm going to ask.  Should em-dashes
have surrounding spaces or "bump-up" against the surrounding words?

(1)  This might be correct --- but is it?
(2)  This might be correct---but is it?

So which is correct, and why?

-- 
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu