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- vaxorcist0
GODDAMN THIS SHIT!..... sorry for the rant.... luckily this works nowdays but.... don't try it in an old email client like some versions of Outlook...
OK... RANT STARTS HERE>.. sorry, I have PTSD from print designers "going web" in the late 90's who INSISTED on m-dashes no matrer what version of MS-TURD they were cut-pasted into whatever version of QUARK DISTRESS, and then cut-pasted into whatever CMS they had just paid $$$$ for to some "pre-press consulting company" that always rendered them wrong and we had to try to convince them that the ultimate sacrilige of using "plain ascii" dashes instead of the typographic nirvana requirement of the holy and invincible M-dashes....
sorry for the rant, just a bit of PTSD from all-night coding sessions to make designer weenies placated about this SINGLE LITTLE CHARACTER.... the uglies code resulted soo often.,... if - this browser then this — code else if that browser then that &## code madness
- if you have hate in your heart, let it out.baseline_shift
- o_OContinuity
- feelsGeorgesII
- had a very funny conversation with an editor about this once, he said excessive M-Dash use = indecisive writing....
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