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Comment by otherme123

3 years ago

To my surprise, no spaces around mdash is the general recommendation.

Moving through text using Cmd + Left/Right arrow will jump over two words if there’s an em dash between them with no spaces. As a frequent em dash user that was very annoying, so I switched to adding spaces — to hell with the APA.

True; depends on the style guide, but most opt in that direction. The Chicago Manual of Style is very firmly in favor of it.

  • It's more a matter of continent than style (ie, the former can explain most of the variance).