Informally, a hyphen often stands in for a proper en dash.Ĭreate en dashes with Option-hyphen (Mac) or ALT 0150 (Windows) - hold down the ALT key and type 0150 on the numeric keypad. En dashes (–) are primarily for showing duration or range as in 9:00–5:00 or 112–600 or March 15–31. – -Ī little longer than a hyphen, the en dash is roughly equivalent to the width of the lowercase n in the typeface in which it is set. Hyphens are usually shorter and thicker than the en dashes although it can vary by font and the difference may be hard to discern, depending on the font. The hyphen is the unshifted key between the 0 and +/= on a standard keyboard. It's not a hyphen a dash is a short line that serves as a punctuation mark and often represented by one or more hyphens.Ī hyphen is a short punctuation mark used to join words (such as well-read or jack-of-all-trades) and to separate syllables of a single word or the characters in a telephone number (12).
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