RE: [gutvol-d] Re: German texts and the m-dash

For instance, what would happen to the following (from Roughing it in the Bush, PG#4389):

"You were fortunate, C---, to escape," said a backwood settler,

I never use three hyphens. In fact, I search for them and change them to either two or four. I'd have set set this example as four hyphens, then in the HTML (automatically) converted each pair into an "mdash;". Two em-dashes look like one continuous (double-em) dash in the browsers I use (IE and Firefox). Bill Flis