Re: [Groff] Hyphens and Dashes

[Jorgen Grahn]

On Wed Mar 31 07:48:28 2004, address@hidden wrote:
> At 07:49 p.m. 30/03/2004, Andrew J. Piziali wrote:
> >   Since we do have some professional typesetters in this community,
> >perhaps you might offer some advise on the proper length hyphen (or
> >dash) to use for an interjected phrase in a sentence.  For example,
...
> Typographical tradition changes from country to country *and* from age to 
> age: change has become so fast that what was valid in the middle of last 
> century is not anymore. To give you an example: the typesetting of quotes 

A few data points:
- en dash with spaces seems to have started replacing em dash, no
  spacing in the US at least around 1950 (judging from the old SF
  anthologies I'm reading)
- modern sv_SE prefers en dash with spaces; probably migrated even
  earlier than the US
- I happen to like em dash, no spacing ;-)

BR,
/Jörgen

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