Re: [Docutils-users] Rendering emdashes (Was: Re: rendering ellipsis)

[David G. <go...@py...>]

[Marcelo Huerta]
> How do you would address the converse situation, meaning, you *need*
> to convert "triple dash + nonspace" into "emdash + nonspace"? That's the
> way dialogs are written in Spanish. It would be *extremely*
> inconvenient to have to escape an space for each line of dialog, for
> example.
> 
>  ---He reñido a un posadero.
>  ---¿Por qué? ¿Cuándo? ¿Dónde? ¿Cómo?
>  ---Porque cuando donde como sirven mal, me desespero.

Marcelo, could you please clarify: in Spanish, is dialogue written 
with three dashes, or with one em dash?

Thanks.

-- David Goodger