An elipsis should have no space before and only a space following if there's no
punctuation. An m-dash should have no space before and after unless it's an
m-dash at the end of a sentence or sencence fragment. If someone's thinking
and cuts himself off and continues with another thought, for example, there
would be an m-dash then a space and another sentence starting with a capital
letter.
That's as clear as I can make it.
Good luck.
----- Original Message -----
From: Cindy Rosenthal
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2016 4:44 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] em dashes
I'm confused again. I thought in a very recent discussion we were told that
em dashes, like ellipses. should have no space before but should have one
space after-- is thar correct? I'm working n a new book and was about to
change the em dashes when I went to my book share notes and saw they said no
spaces before or after. PLease refresh my memory as to both ellipses and em
dashes
Cidy
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