On 6/25/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
It's a topic I'm close to, because my instinct is to want to render standard typesetting as closely as possible in ASCII, but I just can't bring myself to set ASCII em dashes--you know, these things--without the surrounding spaces -- even though that's how I see them set in type.
Weird, I tend to use hyphens with spaces - like this - to achieve that effect.
Steve