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Meanings of em-dash in English
Usage of em-dash in English
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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Translations for em-dash
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Portuguese
Spanish
Em-dash through the time