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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by lostlogin on Friday March 28, 2025 @05:29PM (#43509965)
I had a quick search, attempting to find a great author who hated em dashes and preferred the vastly superior en dash. I found nothing.

This list of authors punctuation quirks is interesting though.

https://lithub.com/the-punctuation-marks-loved-and-hated-by-...

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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by phlakaton on Saturday March 29, 2025 @12:27PM (#43516656)
You want Robert Bringhurst, poet and typographic nerd. He gives them special withering attention in his Elements of Typographic Style. I think he referred to them as Victorian excrescences?
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