Comment by accoil

Comment by accoil a day ago

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If it makes a difference: it's an en dash used in the readme.

I've been wondering why LLMs seem to prefer the em dash over en dash as I feel like en (or hyphen) is used more frequently in modern text.

schrodinger 19 hours ago

In my experience the em dash is still correctly used, the modern style has just evolved to put a space around it.

So:

* fragment a—fragment b (em dash, no space) = traditional

* fragment a — fragment B (em dash with spaces) = modern

* fragment a -- fragment b (two hyphens) = acceptable sub when you can’t get a proper em to render

But en-dashes are for numeric ranges…

  • lxgr 15 hours ago

    em dash plus spaces is quite rare in English style guides. It’s usually either an em dash and no spaces or an en dash with them.