No spaces.

Unrelated typography question — spaces before and after an em-dash: yes or no?

I prefer spaces, but my work's style guide says no. It still irks me.

So far at work today I have accomplished:

• Drinking almost all of my first cup of coffee.
• Rearranging all the computers on my desk so that I can see (and watch) the TV.

Can I take a nap now?

So, apparently, buying something at the Apple store — which I do several times a year — in the city I live in — gets flagged as suspicious activity. Also, attempting to withdraw cash to make a purchase after said debit card purchase gets rejected will get flagged as suspicious activity too. Wankers.

The algorithms used to detect credit and debit card fraud are quite complex and constantly changing. I think computers come up with them now instead of humans. Perhaps using stolen cards to purchase Apple products and then reselling them for cash is common these days?

Anyway, detecting credit and debit card fraud will soon be done by Skynet.

Another vote for no spaces.

No spaces. Spaces are for en-dashes.

It is open enrollment. At my job most of the employees do not have work computers as they are truck drivers. Our benefits are set up to be employee controlled, meaning you do not fill out forms and send them to HR, you do everything online yourself. Do you think my people are computer literate? Do you think they bookmark these webpages from year to tear or write down their passwords? Less than half do. I have spent over 2 hours on the phone the last 2 days just trying to get 2 users onto the website. Over 20 min to get a web address entered correctly.

I have been wondering for a long time- is the m-dash what was a double hyphen when I was typing on a typewriter? I used to use it a lot-- dash, dash, space when I was writing papers in collegeto indicate a sort of break in my thoughts-- like this. But I don't lnow what to use know, and I don't really know how to get the proper dashes in Word.

Word automatically changes 2 hyphens to an em dash.