Sean Connor wrote:

A note to all writers using Microsoft Word, and possibly Wordpad, to
write: Disable SmartQuotes.  They are evil.

It's not a problem in Wordpad.  Just make sure you're editing a text
(not Rich Text, and *definitely* not Word) document.  Save as, close,
and re-open if you're not sure.

Get thee to a grammar book and learn the difference between a hyphen
and a dash. :)

It's the same ASCII character.  I gave up trying to enforce a difference
between the two in my conversations years ago.

Anyways, I knew what the problem was as soon as I saw it, and e-mailed the
author telling him how to fix it.  I see that a reformatted version has
now appeared.

And it has, apparently, fixed the problem.  (I still think " - " is
better than "--", but that's merely a personal style issue.)