Just a Dash: Better Typography through Ems and Ens

I’m still trying to learn all the various typographical rules for various hyphens and dashes and so on. Perhaps it isn’t worth my time, but the difference between a minus symbol and a hyphen should have been taught in school! (It wasn’t.)

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