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Subject: the dash from "||"
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I sometimes wonder why the dash produced by "||" is so big:

      la-la la--la la$-$la la||la

The last one is pretty dark and long.  I like the ability to have
optional breaks, but I'd expect the last one ("la||la") to look like
the first ("la-la").  Sometimes the darker dash looks out of place in
documents.  

Is there a grammatical reason for the darker dash, or some other
reason perhaps?

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