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Dashes are primarily used in informal writing, like letters or notes; they can substitute almost any punctuation, including commas, semicolons, colons, quotes, parenthesis, or stops. They usually designate a pause a little longer than a full stop. Most style guides advice to avoid dashes in formal text, as they make it look immature and not thought-through. Dashes are also used to mark ranges or a missing piece of text -- especially in continuations, quotes, affixes and onomatopeia.
Dashes are primarily used in informal writing, like letters or notes; they can substitute almost any punctuation, including commas, semicolons, colons, quotes, parenthesis, or stops. They usually designate a pause a little longer than a full stop. Most style guides advise to avoid dashes in formal text, as they make it look immature and not thought-through. Dashes are also used to mark ranges or a missing piece of text -- especially in continuations, quotes, affixes and onomatopoeia.
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When the typewriters were introduced, the technical limitations made every character on their keyboard scarce: thus the minus sign was butchered: made a little longer and lowered, to serve as a replacement for all the "horizontal line" characters. The new character was named "dash" or "minus/dash". Its exact meaning can be usually guessed from the context, but in cases where it mattered, various tricks were used to distinguish its various uses. When computers were created, they commonly uses teletype terminals -- and later more advanced teletype terminal emulators -- that all inherited the butchered typewriter character. With appearance of the desktop computers (Apple) and come back of proportional-width fonts, also the various "horizontal line" characters returned. Unfortunately, there is no standard easy way of typing them on the used-to-be-teletype keyboard, and most users are not even aware of them. See [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen-minus|Hyphen-minus on Wikipedia]].
When the typewriters were introduced, the technical limitations made every character on their keyboard scarce: thus the minus sign was butchered: made a little longer and lowered, to serve as a replacement for all the "horizontal line" characters. The new character was named "dash" or "minus/dash". Its exact meaning can be usually guessed from the context, but in cases where it mattered, various tricks were used to distinguish its various uses. When computers were created, they commonly used teletype terminals -- and later more advanced teletype terminal emulators -- that all inherited the butchered typewriter character. With appearance of the desktop computers (Apple) and come back of proportional-width fonts, also the various "horizontal line" characters returned. Unfortunately, there is no standard easy way of typing them on the used-to-be-teletype keyboard, and most users are not even aware of them. See [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen-minus|Hyphen-minus on Wikipedia]].
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The number of characters that these glyphs take depends on the encoding used -- they are always single glyphs though. Following the RFC-es for URLs, **none** of these characters is allowed in URL's unquoted -- instead the "dash/minus" glyph is commonly used.
The number of characters that these glyphs take depends on the encoding used -- they are always single glyphs though. Following the RFC-es for URLs, **none** of these characters are allowed in URL's unquoted -- instead the "dash/minus" glyph is commonly used.
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More detailed information: [[Wikipedia:Dash|Dash in Wikipedia]]
[[Wikipedia:Hyphen|Hyphen in Wikipedia]] [[Wikipedia:Minus_sign|Minus in Wikipedia]]
==== More detailed information:
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More links: [[http://www.bartleby.com/68/16/1616.html|Dash on Columbia Guide to Standrad American English]], [[http://www.bartleby.com/68/67/3067.html|Hyphen on Columbia Guide to Standard American English]], [[http://www.bartleby.com/116/404.html|Dash on The King’s English, 2nd ed.]], [[http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/d.html#dash|Dash in Lynch's Guide to Grammar and Style]]
* [[Wikipedia:Dash|Dash in Wikipedia]]
* [[Wikipedia:Hyphen|Hyphen in Wikipedia]]
* [[Wikipedia:Minus_sign|Minus in Wikipedia]]
==== More links:
* [[http://www.bartleby.com/68/16/1616.html|Dash on Columbia Guide to Standrad American English]]
* [[http://www.bartleby.com/68/67/3067.html|Hyphen on Columbia Guide to Standard American English]]
* [[http://www.bartleby.com/116/404.html|Dash on The King’s English, 2nd ed.]]
* [[http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/d.html#dash|Dash in Lynch's Guide to Grammar and Style]]
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12 07-Mar-2007 16:09 3.603 kB ChuckSmith to previous | to last more detailed info into bullet list
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10 07-Mar-2007 15:48 3.571 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last removed puses, added continuations
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