On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 12:21:28PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
Would requiring spaces on either side of the double dash before converting it into an emdash improve the parsing behavior any?
Please don't.
<snob type=typography> Em dashes are properly set in English text without spacing on either side, though the ASCIIography of this usage is much less picky.
If someone decides that it needs to be " -- " that's mapped, at least take the spaces out when setting the glyph? </snob>
Cheers, -- jra