Steve, coming out of his codeine-induced dream state, writes: > CMS says (from old memory) something like a sequential range uses an en, > without spacing if numbers. Ems are for sentence breaks. Spot on -- but you mean en dashes and em dashes. 'Em' and 'en' by themselves are units of measurement proportional to a given font. -- Mike West ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelist.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************