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2010年10月6日 · Usage of the em dash, since that's what dmckee's explanation doesn't tackle: it's nicest to think of the em dash as a dramatic pause in a sentence, and it need not be used parenthetically. Chicago (6.87) calls it "the most commonly used and versatile of the dashes", and lists among its uses:
en dash and em dash spacing - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange
2012年7月1日 · I've noticed that en dashes and em dashes run into certain numbers and letters, and I don't believe it's standard to use spaces with these. For example, if a 'b' comes before the dash or a '6' comes after, the dash looks like it's actually …
tex core - LuaTeX and em dashes - LaTeX Stack Exchange
2019年2月28日 · LuaLaTeX is not inserting em dashes unless there is space around the triple dash. It works fine when using a unicode em dash, or explicitly using the \\textemdash macro. Here is a MWE: \\documentcl...
punctuation - Em dash using | - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange
2017年9月9日 · It places an — (em-dash) in the spot associated with |. To highlight this, consider the following example: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \showoutput | --- \end{document} \showoutput adds content to the .log that shows the construction of the output pages. The following excerpt was taken from the above example's .log:
punctuation - How to add em-dash in listings environment? - TeX
The trouble is the em-dash, which I can’t set in the listings environment. The MWE below shows what I’ve tried so far. Typing “---” prints just three hyphens, \emdash{} doesn’t print anything at all, escaping the listings environment does print the em-dash, but it creates trouble with the string formatting: The space characters are ...
Semantic line breaks and spaces around em-dashes
2021年2月18日 · clause-per-line, inconsistent em-dash spaces: The food ---which was delicious--- reminded me of home. The food, which was delicious, reminded me of home. I would like both sources to render the same, but the clause-per-line version introduces a space before or after an em-dash. I could instead use. sentence-per-line, em-dash spaces:
symbols - What is the LaTeX command for "em dash" (—)? - TeX
2012年4月26日 · Just came here for an answer, since the em dash looked like a space in the PDF previewer I was using. Turns out the font just had a very thin line for a dash. I embiggened the previewer, and voila!--there were the em dashes! In case someone else has the same issue. –
spacing - Is there a method just write `---` to get an em-dash, …
For a thin space is should be {167,167}, as 1000 refers to the em in the current font and the normal width of the thin space is 1/6 em. – egreg Commented Apr 17, 2013 at 10:45
Correct use of hyphen, en dash, or em dash in compound words
Dash --or ---is used generally in a place of comma , or as an interval, like 2009--2011. In "classical" English typography, you don't put spaces around dashes---like just here; it is because English typography tends to make all the inter-word spaces equal, no matter whether there's a dash or comma between the words. "Modern" typography changes ...
Unicode support for em-dash - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange
2015年3月7日 · I am using XeLaTeX. My goal is to display a Unicode em dash in my PDF file. The \dash will not compile, below: it says ! Undefined control sequence. Here is the minimal (non)-working example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2014}{\dash} \begin{document} hello \dash there! \end{document}