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[-] Thalfon@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 weeks ago

A slight correction, en-dashes are used mostly to indicate ranges like Mon–Fri. Hyphens are a separate third thing, smaller than an en-dash.

- hyphen
– en-dash
— em-dash

They get their names originally from having the same width as the letter n or m respectively in typesetting (though not all fonts follow that necessarily).

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you for this!!!!

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