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Inserting Em Dashes & En Dashes

Categories: Proofreaders' Marks

Tags: Mark Twain, Proofreaders' Marks, punctuation, quotations

Proofreaders’ Marks It’s a little-known fact that dashes come in different sizes. Most folks know about the hyphen, but fewer are familiar with the em dash and the en dash. The length of the em dash corresponds to the width of the letter m: —. The en dash is the width of the letter n: […]

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