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Em Rules, En Rules, and Hyphens

By Cyber PenDragon on January 12, 2011

The ability to dash properly is a useful skill, when working with running text for instance. Still, I often see otherwise dashing material that’s been dashed by being dashed off with a wrong dash. It’s a dashed shame.

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En Rule (aka Short Dash, En Dash)

By Cyber PenDragon on January 12, 2011

En Rule (n.): British. A short dash, the width of an en, used in punctuation.

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Hyphen

By Cyber PenDragon on January 12, 2011

Hyphen (n.): the sign (-) used to join words to indicate that they have a combined meaning or that they are grammatically linked, or to indicate word division at the end of a line.

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short dash

Em Rules, En Rules, and Hyphens

En Rule (aka Short Dash, En Dash)

Hyphen

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