1 The following command changes two consecutive dashes into an em-dash .
2 Logically, we should represent the three-em-dash as six dashes, but you may reduce that to four.
3 When Word recognizes an em-dash as such, it may try to use a special character for it.
4 In typography, there are four standard types of dashes: the hyphen, the en-dash, the em-dash , and the three-em-dash.
5 In principle, an ellipsis is one symbol, like an em-dash , and should not be broken at line end.
6 For PG texts, we represent the em-dash as two dashes with no space between or around them-likethis.
7 Otherwise, you can use a three-em-dash (see above: 6 or 4 hyphens) in such places.
8 There is no ASCII equivalent of the em-dash ; there is no key on your keyboard that you can press to get one.
9 The em-dash can also be used at the end of a sentence or speech to indicate that the speaker stopped or trailed off.
10 Unlike the em-dash , you should leave a space in such cases wherever a space would have been before the letters were replaced by dashes.
11 You use the em-dash as a kind of parenthesis-asI am doing here-orto indicate a break in thought or subject within a sentence.
12 (HTML and some character sets do provide separate entities for en-dash and em-dash . )
13 "That's a double two-em-dashed lie, you etaoin shrdlu so-and-so!"
14 In the first paragraph of the new chapter, we need to get rid of the hyphenation of "Wentworth" at line-end and fix the two em-dashes .
15 The following command changes two consecutive dashes into an em-dash .
16 Logically, we should represent the three-em-dash as six dashes, but you may reduce that to four.
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