Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #6 (em dash = --)

[Klaus Weide]

On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Philip Webb wrote:

> 990315 David Combs wrote: 
> > What is easier to read of these two:
> > (1) Now is the time -- so they say -- for all good men to come...
> > (2) Now is the time--so they say--for all good men to come...
>  
> i suspect we've all forgotten the long debate (last year?) about this.
> i agree with DC that there should be spaces round the `--', ie (1),
> but isn't that for the author to insert as ` ' ?

Yes.


  Klaus