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Oliver Schick in reply to @mashton

Not to be used to separate parentheses. Apparently used like this:

* in date ranges, such as 1849–1863,
* to join two names in a phrase, such as the Michelson–Morley experiment,
* in multi-part prefixes, such as "post–World War II", although for those, either a hyphen or an en dash can be used; British publications use hyphens, and American publications use en dashes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Hyphens_and_dashes

I've never seen the point of those. For me, the En dash isn't sufficiently distinct from a shorter hyphen.

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croggy in reply to @Oliver Schick

It’s a hot topic among copy editors — in the US more than the UK.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/style/em-dash-punctuation.html

To my ear, it has more of a dramatic beat to it than an en dash. Its slightly longer diving board lends a pause somewhere between a regular dash (en) and an ellipsis.

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Oliver Schick in reply to @croggy

All this in an article which places spaces either side of the Em dashes ... :)

I think Em dashes are typographically much preferable. No spaces, please.

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