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Old 12-22-2014, 06:29 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
I though a minus sign and a dash were the same thing. How are they not the same thing?
They're not the same thing 'cause they're different characters:

hyphen - (ASCII 45) used to indicate that a hyphen should persistently appear, like en- and em-dashes is vertically placed so as to harmonize w/ lowercase text, unless in a range of all caps.
soft hyphen (ISO 8859: 0xAD, Unicode U+00AD) used to indicate an allowable hyphenation point
en-dash – (ASCII 0150 (on a PC), U+2013; – – –) --- used to indicate duration, or certain linguistic forms
em-dash — (ASCII 0151 (on a PC), U+2014; — — —) --- used to indicate a pause / break in thought as well as various other typographic usages
minus − (U+2212; − − −) --- used to indicate subtraction or a negative. Sets higher than minus, en or em dash so as to align w/ lining figures
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