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

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Jan 26 2010 - 16:11:14 CST

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    On 26 Jan 2010, at 21:57, Michael Everson wrote:

    > I have been working with a lot of early Carrollian material and it's
    > clear that the 2-em dashes are a single piece of type. I checked
    > this with a loupe on a first of "The Nursery 'Alice'".

    I was wrong... I checked on other pages and those are all two closely-
    set em dashes.

    I checked a first of "Sylvie and Bruno": same thing, and same in
    "Sylvie and Bruno Concluded". So Victorian Macmillan, at least, did
    not have single 2-em-dash sort.

    Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

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