Re: thin spaces again

[Thomas Neuburger <thomasn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Great discussion. For what it's worth, I've settled on en dashes without 
thin spaces for number ranges, and em dashes *with* thin spaces for long 
dashed in text.

You would think that the two dash types wouldn't touch the before and aft 
characters, but they sometimes does. So I use thin spaces around em dashes. 
For me, that look is better than the alternative.

Tom Neuburger

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>Subject: Re: thin spaces again
>From: Jan Henning <henning@r-l.de>
>Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:59:29 +0100
>X-Message-Number: 3
>
> >My recollection is that for ranges of numerals (e. g., 1999 - 2000),
> >one should use an en-dash, with thin spaces on either side.
>
>For what it's worth: While the Chicago Manual of Style does not seem to
>specifically say anything on the subject, they use en-dashes without any=
>
>kind of space (e.g. 1999-2000).
>
>(The standard in German typography is to use no space or a very narrow
>space - a FrameMaker thin space would probably already be too wide.)
>
>Regards
>Jan Henning


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