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  2. Wikipedia:How to make dashes - Wikipedia

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    To insert a dash or minus sign, use the toolbar below the edit box. Click where you want the character to be inserted, select "Insert" from the pull-down menu, and then: To insert an en dash (–), click on the first character (the shorter dash). To insert an em dash (—), click on the second character (the longer dash).

  3. Dash - Wikipedia

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    The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline.The most common versions are the en dash –, generally longer than the hyphen but shorter than the minus sign; the em dash —, longer than either the en dash or the minus sign; and the horizontal bar ―, whose length varies ...

  4. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Dash, Hyphen-minus-Hyphen-minus: Dash, Hyphen, Minus sign ☞ Index: Manicule, Obelus (medieval usage) · Interpunct: Full-stop, Period, Decimal separator, Dot operator ‽ Interrobang (combined 'Question mark' and 'Exclamation mark') Inverted question and exclamation marks ¡ Inverted exclamation mark: Exclamation mark, Interrobang ¿ Inverted ...

  5. Wikipedia:Hyphens and dashes - Wikipedia

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    On iOS Devices, tap and hold (long press) the -on-screen key to display choices for the en dash "–" and em dash "—". The four hyphen/dash-like characters used in Wikipedia are: - is a hyphen-minus (ASCII 2D, Unicode 002D), normally used as a hyphen, or in math expressions as a minus sign – is an en dash (Unicode 2013).

  6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    9.9.2.3 Instead of a hyphen, use an en dash when applying a prefix or suffix to a compound that itself includes a space, dash or hyphen 9.9.2.4 To separate parts of an item in a list 9.9.3 Other uses for en dashes

  7. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers - Wikipedia

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    Other "simple" ranges use an unspaced en dash as well: day–day: 5–7 January 1979; January 5–7, 1979; elections were held March 5–8. month–month: the 1940 peak period was May–July; the peak period was May–July 1940; (but the peak period was May 1940 – July 1940 uses a spaced en dash; see below)

  8. Quotation mark - Wikipedia

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    Alternatively, an en-dash followed by a (non-breaking) space can be used to denote the beginning of quoted speech, in which case the end of the quotation is not specifically denoted (see section Quotation dash below). A line-break should not be allowed between the en-dash and the first word of the quotation.

  9. En (typography) - Wikipedia

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    An en (from English en quadrat) is a typographic unit, half of the width of an em. By definition, it is equivalent to half of the body height of the typeface (e.g., in 16-point type it is 8 points). [1] The en is sometimes referred to as the "nut", to avoid confusion with the similar-sounding "em". [2] The en dash (–) and en space ( ) are ...