Re: [docbook-apps] How to include [long] dashes...

On 1 Jan 2012, at 00:01, Giuseppe Greco wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Does anybody know how to include [long] dashes to separate sentences (DocBook 5 NG)?
> 
> Any help would be really appreciated.

Do you mean an em dash, or something else?

If you do mean an em dash, just use the numeric entity. Something like this:

<para>First part &#x2014; second part.</para>

Reading <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash> there seems to be a range of views over the spaces either side of the dash.

Chris