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Re:It's Not Just X. It's Y by jbotz on Monday June 01, 2026 @01:07AM (#48352826)
Actually, in an ancient and venerable markup language that's still in wide use in certain not-unimportant communities:

- = hyphen

-- = n-dash

--- = m-dash

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Re:It's Not Just X. It's Y by ffsm8 on Monday June 01, 2026 @09:28AM (#48356594)
You may notice that he didn't use the double or triple hyphen annotations either - which is usually only used in contexts such as latex, where a post-processor goes over the output for display.
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