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Meanings of em-dash in English

Russian
длинное тире
Portuguese
travessão
Spanish
raya

Punctuation mark: —

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        длинное тире
        Usage of em-dash in English
        1
        The following command changes two consecutive dashes into an em-dash.
        Sed & awk, 2nd edition
        2
        Logically, we should represent the three-em-dash as six dashes, but you may reduce that to four.
        The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002
        3
        When Word recognizes an em-dash as such, it may try to use a special character for it.
        The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002
        4
        In typography, there are four standard types of dashes: the hyphen, the en-dash, the em-dash, and the three-em-dash.
        The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002
        5
        In principle, an ellipsis is one symbol, like an em-dash, and should not be broken at line end.
        The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002
        6
        For PG texts, we represent the em-dash as two dashes with no space between or around them-likethis.
        The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002
        7
        Otherwise, you can use a three-em-dash (see above: 6 or 4 hyphens) in such places.
        The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002
        8
        There is no ASCII equivalent of the em-dash; there is no key on your keyboard that you can press to get one.
        The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002
        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.
        The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002
        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.
        The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002
        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.
        The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002
        12
        (HTML and some character sets do provide separate entities for en-dash and em-dash.)
        The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002
        13
        "That's a double two-em-dashed lie, you etaoin shrdlu so-and-so!"
        Four-Day Planet
        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.
        The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002
        15
        The following command changes two consecutive dashes into an em-dash.
        Sed & awk, 2nd edition
        16
        Logically, we should represent the three-em-dash as six dashes, but you may reduce that to four.
        The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002
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        Translations for em-dash
        Portuguese
        travessão
        Em-dash through the time