Significados de em-dash en inglés

The following command changes two consecutive dashes into an em-dash.

Logically, we should represent the three-em-dash as six dashes, but you may reduce that to four.

When Word recognizes an em-dash as such, it may try to use a special character for it.

In typography, there are four standard types of dashes: the hyphen, the en-dash, the em-dash, and the three-em-dash.

In principle, an ellipsis is one symbol, like an em-dash, and should not be broken at line end.

For PG texts, we represent the em-dash as two dashes with no space between or around them-likethis.

Otherwise, you can use a three-em-dash (see above: 6 or 4 hyphens) in such places.

There is no ASCII equivalent of the em-dash; there is no key on your keyboard that you can press to get one.

The em-dash can also be used at the end of a sentence or speech to indicate that the speaker stopped or trailed off.

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.

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.

(HTML and some character sets do provide separate entities for en-dash and em-dash.)

"That's a double two-em-dashed lie, you etaoin shrdlu so-and-so!"

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 following command changes two consecutive dashes into an em-dash.

Logically, we should represent the three-em-dash as six dashes, but you may reduce that to four.