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Most readers know that hyphens connect groups of words or numbers whereas dashes set things off. But from there it tends to get a little fuzzy. For example, which key do you press to get the dash? Is there more than one kind of dash? ... What about minus signs?
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Unless - and I admit this is possible - you're trying to annoy the reader, try not to fall in love - or even in like - with the em dash. So many manuscripts I edit suffer from inflammation of the em dash - it's rampant - as if these little buggers multiply like cockroaches....
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The em dash is perhaps the most versatile punctuation mark. Depending on the context, the em dash can take the place of commas, parentheses, or colons?in each case to slightly different effect.
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"Markdown" is the most commonly used lightweight markup language on the internet. It is great for a subset of tasks, mainly blog posts and commenting. However, lately it has been adopted by the tec...
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