According to Wikipedia: "Dashes have been cited as being treated differently in the US and the UK, with the former preferring the use of an em dash with no additional spacing and the latter preferring a spaced en dash."
Though I prefer the spaced en dash myself, and I am in the UK, I think there's probably a lot of variation on both sides of the Atlantic.
Re:Writing one sentence per line
by lifthrasiir on Monday June 20, 2022 @09:23AM
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If you are using Markdown you can use an HTML comment—<!--
-->like this. I'm okay with that because there are some edge cases [1] in CommonMark that I absolutely need to use one anyway.
[1] https://talk.commonmark.org/t/foo-works-but-foo-fails/2528
Re:Writing one sentence per line
by avgcorrection on Monday June 20, 2022 @10:28AM
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A hairline space between em-dashes can be quite visually pleasing (in American writing; British uses full spaces around en-dashes). Like what Medium does.
But in that case I would prefer that the source text still has no spaces. Such things can be added in postprocessing.
Uh oh, that’s incompatible with standard em dash usage, which is with no surrounding whitespace.
(I’m designing a lightweight markup language of my own, and it’s tempting to special-case an em dash at the end of a line that is not preceded by a space, to join to the next line without inserting a space, but I’ve been trying to avoid nuance in rules. But I definitely do want to put line breaks after em dashes sometimes.)