On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 02:29:46 +0100, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
I don't know that many languages myself; I'm only being as open-minded as possible. There is no grounds upon which to base the assumption that dashes must necessarily be surrounded by spaces in all languages. Even in English, many people don't put spaces around m-dashes.
IIRC, the Manual of Style even says that date intervals should NOT have surrounding whitespace when using m-dashes.
-Bill Clark