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1. aorth ◴[28 Mar 25 07:15 UTC] No.43502448[source]▶

I read Butterick's Hyphens and dashes some years ago and it stuck with me. Now I regularly use hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes correctly—I even memorized the Unicode sequences and enter them seamlessly on Linux with Ctrl-Shift-U!

https://practicaltypography.com/hyphens-and-dashes.html

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2. uneekname ◴[28 Mar 25 18:19 UTC] No.43508481[source]▶

>>43502448 (TP) #

Came here to post the same link! That book is wonderfully opinionated and has helped clarify some typographic concepts for me

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