Em Dash, En Dash & Hyphens: How to Use 'Em

Posted in Local Editor Resources on June 28, 2002

Another topic I’d always wondered about recently came up on the editors’ e-list. The question asked about using dashes in punctuation — specifically, which dash should be used in which situation. Several online references touch on this; for more info, see How to Create and Use Dashes and Hyphens or The Rules of Typography (which also addresses whether or not there should be space around dashes).