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5.2 Dashes and Quotation marks
Hyperlatex translates a sequence of two dashes -- into a single
dash, and a sequence of three dashes --- into two dashes --. The
quotation mark sequences '' and `` are translated into simple
quotation marks ".
Otfried Schwarzkopf, September 2, 1997