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In my recent book project with my photographer friend, Ellie<\/a>, I learned a thing about en dashes and em dashes, as separate from hyphens. I brushed up on the topic by reading a discussion thread at painintheenglish.com.<\/a><\/p>\n “The hyphen is used to hyphenate compound words and between non-continuing numbers, e.g., phone numbers.<\/p>\n The en dash is used to “connect continuing, or inclusive, numbers \u00e2\u20ac\u201d dates, time, or reference numbers.” [Chicago Manual of Style, sec. 5.115]<\/p>\n The em dash is used “to denote a sudden break in thought that causes an abrupt change in sentence structure.” [Chicago Manual of Style, sec. 5.106] When typing, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s common to use two hyphens for an em dash. In HTML, you can also use the entity: “—”.”<\/p>\n I also learned that while in Word, an em dash is automatically generated by using two hypens, that you can make one manually on a PC by pressing Alt + 0151.<\/p>\n “An em dash is ASCI character 151, so Alt+0151 (on the numeric keypad) inserts it. In Word on a PC, an en dash is CTRL + the numeric key pad minus sign, and an em dash is CTRL + Alt + numeric minus sign. This does not work in other programs.”<\/p>\n and<\/p>\n “On the Mac, if I type option + shift along with the dash key I get an m dash. If I type option and the dash key I get an n dash.”<\/p>\n Interesting, and useful for those of us who often have sudden breaks in our thought processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Who the? What the? In my recent book project with my photographer friend, Ellie, I learned a thing about en dashes and em dashes, as separate from hyphens. I brushed up on the topic by reading a discussion thread at … Continue reading
\nAn en dash is character 150, so\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n