Em dash at start of line?!? — Typophile archive

Hildebrant22 August 2003 · 12:34

So im working a paragraph which contains an em dash, this thing just keeps wanting to fall right at the beginging of the second line down in an indented paragraph.

Example:

(indent)Blah s;ldf;sdflka'a;lkasfjnfoiwenf
-- werkwerl;kwerkl;wer;lkwe;. weriowre;iwe
weroewrlkewrjfisdfjflkwlwerj.

This sort of thing.

Whats your thoughts on this? Bad Good? can I get away with it? Its really bothering me quite a lot.

hildebrant.

kakaze22 August 2003 · 14:42

If you don't want it to start at the line, which I think would look kind of awkward, use a soft return after it to force it to start at the end of the first line.

If that still doesn't work, adjust your tracking a bit.