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Uwe Koloska schrieb:
>>2. In the TeXBook I've read that an em-dash is to be used in a sentence
>>like "Every land I've ever visited has its own god --- or its own set of
>>gods --- and they all have different names" From the moment I've read this
>>thing about em-dashes in the TeXBook, I began to really discover them in
>>english texts but never in german ones. Is this a special rule that is
>>valid only for english texts or is it also a rule for german texts. And
>>have I then, up to now, read only badly typsetted german texts? :)
>
>No, it's not used in german and most modern english texts doesn't use it, 
>too.  So in german you use "--" as "Gedankenstrich"

Indeed. You can find more typographic detail information in my
"formelsammlung" (see link below) or in good books...

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