The hyphen does not indicate a range of numbers, like a date range, which is the job of an en dash.
#How to use em dash on keyboard software#
(This image was made with PowerPoint and Photoshop the relative sizes of the dashes look right, however, the en dash and em dash don’t exactly match the width of the upper-case N and M – and they rarely do! It also depends on fonts, software and devices.) When should I use a hyphen, en dash or em dash? Hyphen The en dash is about as wide as an uppercase N the em dash is as wide as an M. Let’s look at those dashes with some text: twenty-five However, they will probably look different in the next example, with some words or numbers adjacent to them. On a phone, the examples above may look wrong. Let’s figure this out! What do they look like? –ĭo the first two look the same to you? It’s because some devices display them inconsistently, when the characters sit all by themselves. The hyphen, em dash and en dash are everywhere, but most of us don’t know when or why to use them – and different writers use the dashes in different ways. The en dash is used inconsistently within lots of writing – regardless of how ‘professional’ the writers are.
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