Re: U+2015 HORIZONTAL DASH, 2-em and 3-em dashes in the Chicago Manual of Style

From: Peter Zilahy Ingerman, PhD (pzi@ingerman.org)
Date: Tue Jan 26 2010 - 16:08:09 CST

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    My father hand-set type. He had 2-em and 3-em dashes in some of his fonts.

    Peter Ingerman

    Rick McGowan wrote:
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    >> Maybe the lack of 2-em and 3-em dashes as characters in Unicode is
    >> based on the assumption that successive em dashes are joining,
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    > One question I have here, before we go off to suggest adding these.
    > Does anyone have evidence that 2-em and/or 3-em dash were ever
    > produced in metal (hot or cold), as distinct pieces from the 1-em
    > dash? (This is a question. I'm not stating a proposed requirement.)
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    > Rick
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