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длинное тире
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travessão
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raya
Punctuation mark: —
mutton
m-rule
m dash
symbol
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длинное тире
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.
em-dash
recognize an em-dash
represent the em-dash
Russian
длинное тире
em-dash
Portuguese
travessão
Spanish
raya
guión largo
guion largo