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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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slippers in reply to @Oliver Schick
I've never seen the point of those. For me, the En dash isn't sufficiently distinct from a shorter hyphen

Hyphens in most typefaces should be a bit shorter to be honest, as they often were in traditional typefaces. They're only ever used within words, rather than between ideas, so they do kinda serve a distinct purpose, but type designers for more modernist/humanist typefaces seem to disagree.

Ranges do also look a little nicer with en dashes too (e.g. 12th–23rd vs. 12th-23rd), especially in more traditional fonts like Baskerville

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Oliver Schick in reply to @slippers

I see your point, but I think the difference here is made by the heavier line weight rather than by the length.

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