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Standard fonts include, at minimum: an em dash ( — ), an en dash (–) and hyphen (-). A figure dash and three-quarter emdash are often included as well, and a one-third em dash more rarely.
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often used for the same purpose as brackets (parenthesis). One dash may be used to indicate a pause in thinking before speech.
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