Dash

Dashes

1. n-dash

   • use in a pair in place of round brackets or commas, surrounded by spaces
   • use singly to link two parts of a sentence, in place of a colon
   • use to link concepts or ranges of numbers, with no spaces either side
   • use between names of joint authors/creators/performers
     • to distinguish from hyphenated names of a single person

2. m-dash

   • not recommended
   • the width of an m
   • sparingly used in formal writing
   • replace commas, semicolons, colons, and parentheses