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I prefer no spaces around em-dashes for the entirely subjective reason that I find it aesthetically pleasing. It boggles my mind that other people look at an el
by scott_s 11y ago
I prefer no spaces around em-dashes for the entirely subjective reason that I find it aesthetically pleasing. It boggles my mind that other people look at an elegant em-dash and think, "Yes... with spaces... now it looks right."
There are some instances when I use spaces - such as in in forum posts or emails, which are far more ephemeral, and I'm not going to hunt around for the actual em-dash character, and I'll use us a space and a hyphen as an uglier, but expedient, substitute.
- SeanLuke 11y ago> I prefer no spaces around em-dashes for the entirely subjective reason that I find it aesthetically pleasing. It boggles my mind that other people look at an elegant em-dash and think, "Yes... with spaces... now it looks right." I think it's because with no spaces, an em-dash looks like it's connecting two words into a single word. Name another phrase-level punctuation mark (period, comma, semicolon, colon, quote, question mark, ellipses, parentheses) which isn't connected to a space. There's a reason for that. [Hyphens, apostrophes, slashes, etc. are word-level.]