"Used as a phrase marker – thus – the en dash is set with a normal word space either side." "Used as a phrase marker—thus—the em dash is set without normal wor

"Used as a phrase marker – thus – the en dash is set with a normal word space either side." "Used as a phrase marker—thus—the em dash is set without normal word spaces." >the em dash is too long for use above, the em-dash without spaces is smaller, at least in this typeface I've taken to using dash offsets—just as an aside—in many places were I formerly used parentheses; I find it "less interrupts" the flow of the sentence.