en dash

In these situations, en dashes must have a single space on each side.

The en dash can also be used to contrast values, or illustrate a relationship between two things.

The en dash may be used as a bullet mark at the start of each item in a list.

In these two uses, en dashes normally do not have spaces around them.

For en dashes, one may press the compose key followed by two hyphens and a period.

Conversely, the form with an en dash, 7-8 May, would refer to the two-day period, at most 48 hours.

The term love-hate relationship has been used in several books on writing as an example of the use of the en dash.

En dashes are more proper than hyphens in ranges (pp.

(Compare use of an en dash used to separate such compounds.)

"I'm the only managing editor on the planet who does not looooove the en dash!"

Microsoft Word allows the user to enter an en dash by typing two hyphen-minus signs.

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

See En dash versus em dash, below.

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

It is also considered inappropriate to use the en dash in place of the words to or and in phrases that follow the forms from .

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

This "space, en dash, space" sequence is also the predominant style in German and French typography.

In chemistry, the minus sign (rather than an en dash) is used for a single covalent bond between two atoms, as in the skeletal formula.

The en dash (-) and en space ( ) are each one en wide.

A hyphen (-) or en dash (-) indicates that the variation transposes to a variation elsewhere.

(see also en dash)

For the most part, however, the en dash and wavy dash are interchangeable; usage is largely a matter of personal taste or institutional style.

A little bug might mean that a user would sometimes find the em dashes (--) and en dashes (-) switched.

Some of these fonts have em and en dashes that more or less fill the monospaced width they have available.

Sometimes this happens to em and en dashes, even when the 8-bit encoding supports them, or when an alternative representation using hyphen-minuses is an option.