Or, if you're truly hardcore, you can remap the regular dash to the en dash. This will probably break something. It shouldn't be this hard. I sincerely hope that, someday in the near future, Microsoft will make a change to its operating system that makes this article completely useless. For now, though, I hope these tips helped you type dashes.
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Type three hyphens with no space between them like—this. Latex will automatically turn it into an em-dash. Do not use spaces before and after dashes and hyphens. The only exceptions are en-dashes used to mark a break in thought and change in sentence structure. Your email address will not be published. English Language Help Desk. Skip to content. Hyphen, en-dash, em-dash By Marina Pantcheva There are three lengths of what non-typesetters simply think of as a dash: the hyphen - , the en-dash — , and the em-dash —.
The hyphen - The hyphen is the shortest mark of the three and has two functions: It joins separate words into a single word: m erry-go-round, off-shore, long-established, T-shirt.
It is used to break a long word into parts so that the word can continue on another line. The en-dash — The en-dash is a bit longer than the hyphen; its length is equal to the width of the letter n , whence the name.
The n-dash simply means through. It is used for any kind of ranges, typically. To subtract numbers on a computer or smartphone a calculator or spreadsheet could be used. In many word processors , an optional hyphen or hyphenation is automatically inserted when a word is cut off by the end of a line. When formatting marks are enabled, these hyphens are represented with the conditional hyphen mark.
A hyphen can also be used to create an en dash and em dash in many word processors by doing two or three hyphens next to each other. With Internet search engines , the hyphen is used as a boolean operator that tells the search not to include a result. For example, if you used the below search, the search engine would return results containing "free," "computer," and "help" but would not return any results containing "expensive.
Hyphens are used in some compound words to make the word easier to read and help clarify words used together. For examples "to-do," "merry-go-round," "high-risk," "T-shirt," and "sixty-six" are all words with hyphens. See the when should I hyphenate words section for further information. A minus symbol or a horizontal line is a symbol used as an indication for a decrease, remove, move up, or zoom out on software programs and hardware devices. In Microsoft Windows, the minus or underscore is also shown in the top-right side of a window to represent the minimize feature.
A dash that is longer than a hyphen is referred to as an en dash or em dash.
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