At 11:26 AM +0200 7/21/12, SN jef chippewa wrote: >the m-dash should ALWAYS be attached to the syllable it follows, it >is in essence a form of punctuation that belongs to that syllable. >there should be a (non-breaking) space between the syllable and the >m-dash, unless you are trying to make the text look american.
There may well be national differences, although I'm not aware of them. I learned to use an m-dash with no spaces on either side. Some folks write it with spaces, suggesting that they've seen it used that way. Again, I would check Chicago, which may indeed be American, as it properly should be. John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music School of Performing Arts & Cinema College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences 290 College Ave., Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[email protected]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "Machen Sie es, wie Sie wollen, machen Sie es nur schön." (Do it as you like, just make it beautiful!) --Johannes Brahms _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
