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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!hersch
  2. Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
  3. Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:01:49 EST
  4. From: <HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
  5. Message-ID: <92356.140149HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
  6. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  7. Subject: Re: Something NEW, ferGawdzake!
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  10. In article <1992Dec20.061608.20205@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>,
  11. slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser") says:
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  14. >I *know* that.  My question was, why do *copy editors* routinely insist that a
  15. >double hyphen is not the correct symbol for an em dash when it's what the
  16. >typesetters prefer?
  17.  
  18. There are still typesetters?
  19.  
  20. H.
  21.  
  22. Herschel Browne
  23. "The" American University
  24.