em dash

An em dash (-) indicates that the single did not chart.

Em dashes are sometimes used to set off summaries or definitions.

Fields with an em dash (-) are not applicable.

The spaced em dash risks introducing excessive separation of words.

In the way she talks, Woolf can teach you many things, including the exact length of an em dash.

The question marks above should be em dashes.

The date of the report comes after, followed by an em dash surrounded by spaces, and then the article.

This provides the appearance of a not spaced em dash, but allows the words and dashes to break between lines.

For em dashes, one may use the compose key followed by three presses of the hyphen character.

-- The use of a second em dash to close a parenthetical thought is rare.

Similarly, the em dash is written so that it occupies the space of two characters in the center of the line.

Depending on local convention, however, provincial electoral districts may use a hyphen instead of an em dash in this context.

You want a second em dash, dontcha?

The em dash (but not the en dash) is also used to set off the sources of quotes:

Corpus studies indicate that em dashes are more commonly used in Russian than in English.

There is no support in the standard TeX fonts, but one can use instead, or just use an em dash.

The usage of the em dash (-) can overlap the usage of the ellipsis.

See En dash versus em dash, below.

However, an em dash can optionally be surrounded with a so-called 'hair space', (8202 decimal).

Chinese uses the wavy dash and full-width em dash interchangeably for this purpose.

The en dash is wider than the hyphen but not as wide as the em dash.

Some writers, finding the em dash unappealingly long, prefer to use an open-set en dash.

In Unicode, the em dash is U+2014 (decimal 8212).

There's the comma, the bracket, and-my personal favorite-the em dash, with a page devoted to each of these wonderful little symbols.

Three hyphens (---) represent an em dash.