For as long as I can remember, I’ve been giving this note to my editing clients: “Replace floating hyphen with proper em dash.” It comes up when I’m proofreading images, like PDFs, and I see a hyphen ...

Q: I’m confused. What is the difference between an em dash and an en dash? How can I type them easily using Microsoft Word? A: A dash is not a hyphen, although many writers err by substituting one for ...

There’s a punctuation mark that most people have never heard of or noticed, even though they’ve probably seen it in print 1,000 times. It’s called the en dash. And it’s a great example of how weird ...