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Apr 26, 2012 · The latex commands are: Hyphen: -. En-dash: \textendash. Em-dash: \textemdash. With the latter two, you will likely want to append {}, because they swallow following space. If you want to use the ligatures -- and --- with standard unicode fonts, use: \usepackage{fontspec} \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text} % and/or - see comments.
Oct 6, 2010 · The difference between a parenthetical comment using parentheses, and one using em dashes, is probably a matter of style. The dashes are more prominent, and thus suggest a more prominent comment. As noted, MS Word and other word processors substitute an em dash for two hyphens, whereas TeX uses three hyphens.
Sep 9, 2017 · It places an — (em-dash) in the spot associated with |. To highlight this, consider the following example: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \showoutput | --- \end{document} \showoutput adds content to the .log that shows the construction of the output pages. The following excerpt was taken from the above example's .log:
Feb 28, 2019 · 13. LuaLaTeX is not inserting em dashes unless there is space around the triple dash. It works fine when using a unicode em dash, or explicitly using the \textemdash macro. Here is a MWE: \item en--dash. \item em---dash. \item em --- dash space. \item en–dash unicode. \item em—dash unicode.
In it a string containing an em-dash is defined, and I’d like to quote it to show an example of the defined object. The trouble is the em-dash, which I can’t set in the listings environment. The MWE below shows what I’ve tried so far. Typing “---” prints just three hyphens, \emdash{} doesn’t print anything at all, escaping the ...
Jul 1, 2012 · 49–81\par. 58–44\par. bib—thing\par. 2–18. \bye. Note that the above is using an OTF font which has en-dash and em-dash in their Unicode positions. Share. Improve this answer. answered Jul 6, 2012 at 9:32.
Dash --or ---is used generally in a place of comma , or as an interval, like 2009--2011. In "classical" English typography, you don't put spaces around dashes---like just here; it is because English typography tends to make all the inter-word spaces equal, no matter whether there's a dash or comma between the words. "Modern" typography changes ...
Putting it in \texttt should probably solve it, but this could happen in normal text and I'd like to know if there is any other solutions. P.S. I am writing the LaTeX files with a software, so in fact for example a thing like \dash{} instead of every - is easier for me, if such a thing exists that is! ligatures. punctuation.
Jan 31, 2019 · When loading fonts in fontspec, be sure to specify the option Ligatures=TeX. (For TeX, creating the en-dash from -- involves ligation.) This normally happens automatically with \setmainfont and \setsansfont, but not other commands such as \newfontfamily. The \defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX} command takes care of this as well.
7. There is one problem that currently seems insolvable to me. I am typesetting a book in Russian language and I noticed that, in some cases, an overfull box appears which cannot be solved via manual \hyphenation or \linebreak or even \emergencystretch, because an em-dash is causing it. Due to the typesetting rules, the em-dash MUST stay at the ...
