On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
Thanks for posting Pater Filucius by Wilhelm Busch (http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/3/4/14340). Unfortunately, the m-dash treatment is wrong--spaces are missing. Is this a common problem for texts prepared by DP-PG?
For quite a while now, it has been considered a PG standard to have no spaces around an emdash. I have wondered before if there is a call for treating this differently in various languages. I remember clearly an exchange of email with a new white-washer about spaces around emdashes in a German text I was submitting. I was arguing that many other German texts in PG and other places seemed to have the spaces; he was arguing that the files should be prepared "to standard" before being submitted. Andrew