2019年4月11日 · Normally what I end up doing is I type two consecutive hyphens --and hit the Space key, which then ends up replacing the two hyphens with the long dash. However, when posting articles in browser-based editors this doesn't always work — such as with the post editor here — so I have to type the double hyphen + Space elsewhere, like in a dummy ...

2016年10月26日 · The em dash (and arguably the en dash when set off by spaces) is perhaps the freeest punctuation mark today and the closest contemporary punctuation to original punctuation marks which only indicated when a writer thought a pause would be helpful. (Ugh, can't find the article I was just reading yesterday. Will share.)

2016年4月29日 · EN-DASH: A longer dash, named because of similarity in size to the letter ‘n’, but technically half the length of an em-dash (4). EM-DASH: An even longer dash, often defined as the length of an upper-case (5) or lower-case (6) letter ‘m’, but technically equal to the width of type in the current point size (3).

2011年6月5日 · Failing that, you are supposed to use U+2014. This is very common in Romance languages, BTW, using a quotation dash for speech quotes. Note that even Bringhurst, who isn’t a fan of the long em dash, rightly says to use two of them for bibliographical entries. The recently released Unicode 6.1 has given us two more dashes to help with this:

2015年9月27日 · In Ludwig Wittgenstein's writings, I often see long dashes (both em-dash, and one even longer, shown in red circles). I can sense (at least I believe I do—perhaps, from the writer's point of view, the two thoughts are tightly-connected, yet they have to be separate sentences) their function; but is there such a usage? Never seen any ...

The dash – used sensitively – can add a dimension to the meaning of a sentence over and above the sum total of the weight of the words. The order, the balance, the nature of the vocabulary used give dimension, too, but the nuances, the humour, the point, the comment implicit in a sentence can often be brought out by the careful use of the dash.

2015年6月4日 · They can be used in similar instances, but the em dash (long dash) is more versatile. A semicolon is more formal, and you generally don't see it written in casual writing (emails, text messages, these forums). Also, you can never follow a semicolon with an incomplete phrase. It must only precede a complete clause (that can be a standalone ...

2019年10月15日 · The ability to type a long dash has disappeared from Catalina. Using the ⌘ + -key no longer works unlike previous versions. Now I just get a beep, and no EM dash. This is across several apps including native macOS ones, and 3rd party like Adobe's. How do I type a long "Em" dash in Catalina?

@Popular: a much larger problem is the common accidental usage of a hyphen when an em dash is meant. This is worrisome because they have the opposite meaning: hyphens connect and glue things together, and em dashes separate and break things up. It drives me up the wall when a hyphen is used instead of a long dash. It really muddies the sentence up.

2016年6月17日 · 3-em dash, to indicate a whole word omitted. To disguise the letter count, the publisher might have considered Berk such a word and rendered the place as ———shire. (Again, you'll have to pretend that the three dashes form a single horizontal line of length 3-em, since my browser won't render the 3-em dash entity.) ———