... dash -in-a-word-document/ These are called em dashes or en dashes because each dash is either the width of the letter m or n.
3 Answers · Computers & Internet · 27/07/2013
..., particularly from a quote. Dashes are known as either " en dash " or "em dash ." The en dash is used to indicate...
3 Answers · Arts & Humanities · 21/06/2006
..., not a full-width space. The other type of dash is an " en dash ," which is sightly narrower (the width of a capital N). ...
1 Answers · Education & Reference · 15/05/2012
Like anything else, they are more effective when used spariingly. And I can sympathize with you - I over-use them too.
4 Answers · Arts & Humanities · 29/05/2011
... of ' dashes ' in typography, there's the hyphen, the nut (or en dash ), and the mutton (or em dash ), each progressively longer, with the en dash ...
3 Answers · Science & Mathematics · 06/08/2012
...most common dashes in writing are em (--) and en (-). An en dash always has spaces around it - like so, while an em dash does not...
4 Answers · Education & Reference · 22/08/2008
... you use HYPHENS in compound words. You use an EN DASH when one or both parts of the compound are themselves a multi-word...
1 Answers · Education & Reference · 04/11/2015
... to do your homework for you, but if you do a web search for " en - dash " and "em- dash " (two different lengths of dashes with different...
1 Answers · Education & Reference · 08/06/2012
... character known as an em dash (not to be confused with the en dash , which is slightly shorter but is still different from the ...
2 Answers · Education & Reference · 26/02/2009
The semi-colon is wrong (a comma could be used) but the dash is OK — if it used like this-- not this! Note: - (hyphen); – ( en dash ); — (em dash ).
1 Answers · Education & Reference · 10/12/2013
