[users] Re: How do I insert an em dash, which I need all of the time? You auto-turn two hyphens into an em dash, but if I go back and try to insert one in preexisting text and then type a word after it to make it auto-turn into em dash, it doesn't al

[Andrew Brown]

Daniel Albuschat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> 2006/1/27, susan brill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> I am using openoffice.org 2.0 Writer. I am an editor, I must have my
>> em dashes. I also need en dashes, they have two separate meanings in
>> writing. Can't they just be included in the symbols?
> 
> Just out of curiousity, what's an em and en dash?
> 

Dashes used instead of hyphens in proper typography. An em dash is the 
width of an "m" character; an en dash is shorter. Both are longer than 
hyphens, and designed to be used with spaces on weither side of them. 


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