Dashes and hyphens (even angled and swung)

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Dashes and hyphens (even angled and swung)

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1Taphophile13
Lug 23, 2018, 1:37 pm

I had no idea there were so many different kinds:
https://theweek.com/articles/785110/dashes-hyphens-comprehensive-guide

2thorold
Modificato: Lug 24, 2018, 1:40 pm

That’s the sort of thing you find out about if you spend time with a typographer. As I know to my cost :-)

And when you think you’ve got that sorted out, they start telling you about all the fine distinctions between apostrophes, quotation marks and ticks...

3overthemoon
Lug 24, 2018, 5:49 pm

not to mention spaces.

4bluepiano
Lug 24, 2018, 6:10 pm

5dtw42
Lug 25, 2018, 11:31 am

That’s good timing for me – I’ve been spending my free time putting together a document all about fine distinctions among punctuation marks, with the items mentioned at 1 and 2 top of the list …