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Gary, I've NOTICED. Some modern magazines that I've read have some of the worst typography. Immense spaces between words and such, or as you pointed out 3 or more hyphens below each other. It's incredible what poor quality is being sold today. A perfect example of the worst though is a book my girl friend was supposed to translate. It was typed on a computer probably but printed out on a daisy wheel printer with a lot of hand drawn illustrations. The quality of the text was atrocious. A perfect example of what is being put out as books currently. In the past, before a book ever went to press it would have been edited by someone who was a professional, especially because it was such an involved and expensive process bringing it to the public in printed form. Nowadays, all kinds of stuff is being published without so much as a glance by a professional typographer or editor. Needless to say, my girl friend ended up not being able to translate the work because she couldn't understand much of it and because it was so poorly phrased, that she would have had to rewrite the entire thing as well. Ciao, Neil