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e28eta | 6 months ago

To be pedantic: Opt-shift-hyphen for the em dash (longer one). Opt-hyphen only gets you an en dash.

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9dev|6 months ago

…which is the appropriate character for ranges, i.e., page 1–2.

I find it a bit sad that using proper typography is now frowned upon, but it seems that ship has sailed.

Symbiote|6 months ago

From the discussion with our head of communications (whose pedantry I approve of) US usage avoids spaces—like this—and should use an em-dash.

But British usage – instead – uses spaces, so an en-dash or an em-dash is acceptable.

saagarjha|6 months ago

One of the reasons I'm not on that page–I have a policy of using en dashes because I am lazy

machinate|6 months ago

Right, you sniped my edit. I don't know why I gave up my hn delay setting...