Month: November 2011

Em dash in LaTeX

My friend Daniel Reeves was recently discussing different ways to typeset em dashes. Here is the way I like to do it in LaTeX. \documentclass{minimal} %this sets up a new command \dash, which makes nice dashes \DeclareRobustCommand\dash{% \unskip\nobreak\thinspace\textemdash\thinspace\ignorespaces} \begin{document} Let’s test out several different variants on making an em dash using the \LaTeX typesetting system…

November 11, 2011

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Em dash in LaTeX