3 ms·
The main uses of the em-dash (set closed as separators of parts of sentences, with different semantics when single or paired) can be substituted in English with
by dragonwriter 2y ago
The main uses of the em-dash (set closed as separators of parts of sentences, with different semantics when single or paired) can be substituted in English with an en-dash set open. This is not ambiguous with the use of en-dash set closed for ranges, because of spacing. There are a few less common uses that an en-dash doesn’t substitute for, though.