Using the n-dash and m-dash when you are creating a webpage or a blog post can seem confusing, but really it is quite easy and you don’t need to be an HTML genius to do it…
Punctuation makes your writing more creative and effective – and nicer to read!
Using the n-dash and m-dash when you are creating a webpage or a blog post can seem confusing, but really it is quite easy and you don’t need to be an HTML genius to do it…
A reader asked about the difference between a minus symbol and an N-dash (thanks Tem). I had to do a bit of homework on this. Unicode (the standard for electronically encoding text information) has separate encoding for the minus sign, hyphen and N-dash. Below you can compare… Symbol hyphen minus sign N-dash M-dash – − [...]
Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think in a lot of everyday speech, the F-bomb has become a kind of dash or a comma.
-Geoffrey Rush
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