Today (as per this thread) I learned I've been mistaking en-dashes for em-dashes all along. With surrounding spaces, at that. Em-dashes feel too long and it fe

Today (as per this thread) I learned I've been mistaking en-dashes for em-dashes all along. With surrounding spaces, at that. Em-dashes feel too long and it feels unnatural not having spaces in between words – there's always at least one, when using any other punctuation marks. > Some people prefer the way a ‘space-en-dash-space’ looks. Sometimes when you use the em-dash people say, “What is that? I don’t like that big long dash thing.” Some technical writers think the n-dash is the only one to use. > It’s not a big deal. I usually use ‘space-n-dash-space’ instead of the m-dash – just to keep everyone happy. You can see this ‘wrong-n’ method used in countless websites, magazines and papers as a replacement for the m-dash. If you use the ‘wrong-n’ method and use it consistently, it works fine and seems to keep the greatest number of people happy. http://www.punctuationmatters.com/hyphen-dash-n-dash-and-m-dash/ http://www.punctuationmatters.com/hyphen-dash-n-dash-and-m-d...