[wolverine876]

What basis do you have for saying that, and for refuting the AP Style Manual? Are you claiming it says otherwise?

[xeonmc]

You might be unaware that there are three types of dashes. For grammatical connections, you choose only one of the following and stick with it

- Em dash: unspaced

- En dash: spaced

For relations, it is always unspaced En dash

[wolverine876]

Do you see what I'm writing? Does it seem I'm unaware? There are even more such marks.

Still no source for your claim. Why do you think these things are true, and that always flawed claim, universally true?