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		mattl on March 28, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphe... A wider number of people use either of them. Every place I’ve used used CMOS which I now use with others.

ghaff on March 28, 2025 [–]

Company I used to work for used AP for things like press releases and, I think, official blog posts and Chicago plus a couple different tech style guides for everything else.

Basically, we didn’t like some things in AP but we wanted to make it easy for journalists to copy/paste.

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