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How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)

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a3w ◴[27 Mar 25 20:49 UTC] No.43498011[source]▶
> spans pages 128–34.

Who omits the 1 from the second number?! That is aweful!

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1. rossant ◴[27 Mar 25 21:23 UTC] No.43498353[source]▶
When I was editing an academic book published by a well-known university press, we were all asked to do that for the references. (And my colleagues, all doctors and lawyers, only knew Word and entered the references manually.)