Typographical question for writers

[annathepiper]

So if you want to type a sentence that has a clause separated off from the rest of the sentence by an em-dash or two (like this: "Blah blah blah--blah blah blah--blah blah."), what is the proper way to type this? I have discovered that this is causing some word count discrepancies since the way I was typing it before was throwing Word's word count off.

Comments

[agrimony.livejournal.com]

If you hit 50k in word's wordcount, you are pretty much guaranteed that the NaNoWriMo counter will count a higher number than that. As I recall, the counter doesn't actually tell you how many words it finds. It just verifies that you've got 50k. Anything above that is pretty much ignored.

[annathepiper]

Well, that's reassuring. :)

(Just crossed 14.3K, another 35.7K to go!)