| 31. | A similar problem comes up with all the variations on dashes ( minus sign, em dash, en dash, etc . ).
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| 32. | In addition to its suite of syntax usage, Textile automatically inserts character entity references for em dashes, to name a few.
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| 33. | The use of em dashes are grammatically correct since they indicates an interruption, and replacing them with en dashes would be incorrect.
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| 34. | However, some longstanding typographical guides such as " The Chicago Manual of Style " still recommend unspaced em dashes for this purpose.
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| 35. | I know an em dash is used for this purpose in a quotation, but I'm never quoting myself when I use it.
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| 36. | I took typing in Jr . High in the early 70's and that was the acceptable way to type an em dash.
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| 37. | This provides the appearance of a " not spaced " em dash, but allows the words and dashes to break between lines.
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| 38. | What I want to ask, though, is about the dash ( excuse me, the em dash ) as compared with the semi-colon.
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| 39. | *Some tables have en dashes in the blank boxes in the first column, while another table has em dashes in these boxes.
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| 40. | Wikipedia uses four : the hyphen ( sometimes called the hyphen-minus ), the minus sign, the en dash, and the em dash.
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