[Docutils-users] Re: Rendering emdashes

[Felix W. <Fel...@gm...>]

Marcelo Huerta wrote:

> Felix Wiemann wrote:
>
>> (I.e., there won't be any problem with your dialog-example.)
>
> It would be problematic for the rendering. Inter-dialog observations
> are included in Spanish by inserting emdashes which *must* be in
> contact with the text in some part and separated in others; otherwise
> it's a syntactic error. For example:
>
> English version:
>
> "Yes,", he told me, "I must finish this work right now." I hated his
> stupid smile.
>
> Spanish version, -- instead of emdash:
>
> --Sí --me dijo él--, tengo que terminar este trabajo ya. --Odiaba su
> estúpida sonrisa.

In fact these dashes wouldn't be transformed, but they are all
en-dashes, not em-dashes.  I suppose you mean:

---Sí ---me dijo él---, tengo que terminar este trabajo ya. ---Odiaba su
estúpida sonrisa.

These dash-groups are all correctly transformed to em-dashes.

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