em dashes were set without spaces

The site's style spaces its dashes; 351 pages carried them un-spaced, and every one was corrected.

Cosmetic: how it looks, not what it says.

Many of this site’s pages — most companion pages, and thirty-eight of the daily prompts — contain em dashes written without surrounding spaces: “word—word” instead of “word — word.” Our house style spaces em dashes for screen readability, and much of the site predates that rule. The words are unaffected; this is punctuation spacing only. Each page corrects as our normal review cycle reaches it — a prompt and its companion page together, never one without the other — rather than as a bulk edit outside our verification process. Corrections are recorded here as each page is updated.

Correction — 2026-09-05 06:38, ruled by Craig (per his terminal, 2026-09-05)

The title of this record was changed.

It read: “Em dashes set without spaces”

It now reads: “The site’s style spaces its dashes; 351 pages carried them un-spaced, and every one was corrected.”

Details

Defect f001 · registered 20 August 2026 · amended 5 September 2026 · resolved 22 August 2026

Affects 38 daily prompts and 313 companion pages. 351 corrected.

Affected pages last measured 21 August 2026.

Affected companions

303 more…

The 38 prompts are counted here but have no page of their own; they reach readers in the daily email and in each companion's opening line.

All known defects