Last time I noticed, however, producing an en dash was a simpler task. Dare to dash. Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! Thanks for covering the proper use of dashes. I hope next week you will cover em dashes which should not have a space on either side.
So…I may be the only one wondering this, but how does one distinguish between a hyphen and en dash using the computer keyboard? I get an em dash by typing two dashes together which get merged by computer software. An easy way to make an en dash is to use the shortcut menu.
An en dash is Alt num lock on and the em dash is Alt Hey… I thought it was called an em dash because it represents the width of a capital letter M. The platforms that are used for transcription word-processing are so varied across the industry, with many companies having proprietary platforms, and the I.
There are many characters that do not translate across the wires, from simple, everyday ones like the ampersand and the degree sign to less common ones like French and Spanish accent marks, umlauts and beyond. What happens is that a blank space is left in the final document. Never been able to figure that one out. Two hyphens stay two hyphens, and the only em dash size is the underline. But thank you, Anne. It may give me a clue to figuring it out.
Thanks for the article but please remember people like me next time. Love this article. Due to bad memory I have to keep coming back. Thankfully, the great SEO of this page keeps bringing me right back! On Mac computers: the hyphen is already there also known as the minus symbol. On an iPhone, hold down the hyphen minus symbol and you will see all three choices of the dash appear.
Really helpful article. Just pointed some colleagues at this as they were having problems lining up a minus icon and a plus icon! I try explaining this to pelope all the time, and no one ever gets it. Sounds so valiant. A headline for a press release e. Also you could use a colon, or two full stops, etc.
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In the editing class I took as part of my tech writing degree, we were taught to use the en-dash to set off a clause within a sentence, not the em-dash. This is brutal. I have always used an En dash to set apart text, a function you attribute to the Em dash. Yet in your website title you have used the En dash in the function you do not endorse! Using a dash to indicate a zero decimal or null value: I think this is quite old-fashioned—and culturally or professionally specific.
In most countries today, neither of these is used. Some financial reports still use a dash for empty decimal places. I work in a building full of accountants; they use a decimal point and zeroes, not a dash.
It is possible to get programs like Excel to insert a dash in place of zero decimals. Your email address will not be published. And I think in a lot of everyday speech, the F-bomb has become a kind of dash or a comma. Punctuation: Important for academic and published writing. Also, it's worth doing right if you simply want to be understood. Close Top Banner. Additional menu. What do they look like? The en dash is about as wide as an uppercase N; the em dash is as wide as an M.
The vote was — against the bill. Hilary Mantel —. The double em dash is used to indicate missing letters in a word, either because the material is missing or illegible, or to conceal a name. Dashes and hyphens convey particular meanings.
Read more of her posts on writing, editing and chaotic punctuation at impertinentremarks. Thank you for an informative post regarding dashes and hyphens. However, an explanation for the inconsistencies in spacing surrounding this punctuation was missing.
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