RE: Re: thin spaces again...(editing oops)

["rowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm with you on this Tom, although Chicago says no spaces, I think that so many of the fonts today are created without thinking about en and em dashes, and so they do tend to run into the characters either side unless a thin space is inserted
Grant
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Original Message:
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From: Thomas Neuburger thomasn@twelfthnight.com
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:50:42 -0800
To: Framers@FrameUsers.com, framers@omsys.com
Subject: Re: thin spaces again...(editing oops)


Horrid editing--fixed below. Sorry...

I sent, then fixed:

>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
>dashes in text.
>
>You would think that the two dash types wouldn't touch the before and aft
>characters, but they sometimes do. So I use thin spaces around em dashes.
>For me, that look is better than the alternative.
>
>Tom Neuburger
>
>The Masters Series FrameMaker 6
>ISBN 1-930597-01-0
>On sale at www.bn.com


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