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


From: Philip Webb
Subject: Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.19 patch #6 (em dash = --)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 18:30:07 -0500 (EST)

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 ` ' ?

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