I have noticed a strong correlation between obsessing about typesetting - and having nothing interesting to say. People are more than happy to read text with p

I have noticed a strong correlation between obsessing about typesetting - and having nothing interesting to say. People are more than happy to read text with plain old ASCII dashes instead of em dashes, if the contents are interesting. In my experience, writers who go full Patrick Bateman on fonts and dashes are usually full of hot air