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The tricks used by the typists to distinguish hyphens from dashes include putting a space on both sides of the hyphen/minus character, using two or three hyphen/minus characters in a row (additionally distinguishing en-dash from em-dash), using tilde for separating ranges, etc. Modern typesetting software often adopts these techniques in order to ease the typing of these characters using standard keyboards. This, connected with the greater width of the dashes, can make some people believe that "dash" is a "double character" in some way.
The tricks used by the typists to distinguish hyphens from dashes include putting a space on both sides of the hyphen/minus character, using two or three hyphen/minus characters in a row (additionally distinguishing en-dash from em-dash), using tilde for separating ranges, etc. Modern typesetting software often adopts these techniques in order to ease the typing of these characters using standard keyboards. This, connected with the greater width of the dashes, can make some people believe that "dash" is a "double character" in some way. An interesting weirdness -- [[http://www.bartleby.com/68/0/2000.html|double hyphen]] -- but this is different.
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An interesting weirdness -- [[http://www.bartleby.com/68/0/2000.html|double hyphen]]
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15 19-Oct-2007 00:47 3.604 kB 207.171.180.101 to previous | to last Fixed spelling and grammar
14 26-Sep-2007 09:47 3.603 kB ChuckSmith to previous | to last restore
13 26-Sep-2007 02:04 3.625 kB 216.23.162.164 to previous | to last
12 07-Mar-2007 16:09 3.603 kB ChuckSmith to previous | to last more detailed info into bullet list
11 07-Mar-2007 15:54 3.586 kB ChuckSmith to previous | to last bullet list of external links
10 07-Mar-2007 15:48 3.571 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last removed puses, added continuations
9 07-Mar-2007 15:39 3.521 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last reworked the leading paragraph, added paragraph about hyphens
8 07-Mar-2007 15:37 3.201 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last reworked the leading paragraph
7 06-Mar-2007 17:10 3.62 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last dash in Lynch's Guide to Grammar and Style
6 06-Mar-2007 16:40 3.517 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last added hyphen-minus link to wikipedia
5 06-Mar-2007 16:07 3.44 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last double hyphen
4 06-Mar-2007 16:06 3.413 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last added double hyphen
3 06-Mar-2007 15:48 3.325 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last removed a link that requires logging in
2 06-Mar-2007 15:43 3.445 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last more on the subject
1 06-Mar-2007 12:23 0.812 kB ChuckSmith to last confusion of hyphens and dashes
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