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A common substitution for emdash is -- which are two hyphens with spaces around them. Personally, I think two hyphens also looks better than just one, and it c

• computerfriend 4y ago
  This is similar to how it's typeset in TeX as well: two for en, three for em.
• EGreg 4y ago
  I have used two hyphens, but I appreciated text editors collapsed them into an (em-) dash. Hyphens are simply for connected-words while dashes are -- for better of worse -- to make asides.
• vitus 4y ago
  > Personally, I think two hyphens also looks better than just one It's context-dependent. (Aside: you wouldn't write "context--dependent", which is the use case of the hyphen.) Ostensibly the en dash is primarily used for ranges, although that's a case where I'm inconsistent. I won't typically write "A - Z" or the technically correct "A–Z", as I think in that case I tend to write "A-Z", using a simple hyphen. I certainly won't write "A -- Z". The em dash is even wider—it's not typically mistaken for a hyphen.
  • c22 4y ago
    Sometimes I write A->Z.