> I anticipate the problem of having to actually generate the em-dash
> character instead of recursively calling the em-dash macro inside the
> macro, so please mention this if you have a solution for me, but I’m
> already stumped at the “how to call a macro ‘—’” part.
You need to make the em-dash character active:
\catcode`\—=13
and then define the macro:
\def—{\char"2014\discretionary{}{}{}}
Note that the macro is not called recursively; “\char"2014” simply
inserts the character in the current font.
Arthur
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