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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 8:05 AM2 repliesview on HN

> Anytime I do this — and I did it long before AI did — they are always em dashes

It depends if you put the space before and after the dashes--that, to be clear, are meant to be there--or if you don't.


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onionytoday at 8:34 AM

I cannot remember ever reading a book where there was a space around the dashes.

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fragmedetoday at 8:36 AM

What, no love for our friend the en-dash?

- vs – vs —

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