I think your problem with en-dashes is that they're not enabled in the default SmaryPants/Textile integration. By default, the only dash conversion SmartyPants does is two-dashes to an em-dash. Three-dashes to an en-dash is an option.

As for the spaces around the dashes, that's because some people *want* spaces around dashes. If you don't want them, you simply need to write your weblog entries without them.

Hope this helps.

Thanks very much John, that does answer the questions.

Personally, I'd love to see an option that would take all badly formed ellipses, dashes, etc. and standardize them in a way presribed by the user. I imagine there are various ways to accomplish that, but it'd be _very_ convenient to have the functionality built right into tools like Smartypants.

Personally, I'd love to see an option that would take all badly formed ellipses, dashes, etc. and standardize them in a way presribed by the user. I imagine there are various ways to accomplish that, but it'd be _very_ convenient to have the functionality built right into tools like Smartypants.

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