Today I’m revisiting one of my favorite walking poems (or is it a travelogue?), David Rattray’s “West from Napeague.”
TL;DR:
Em dash (—): Can replace parentheses (in pairs) and/or a concluding comma. Mac: shift+alt+dash.
En dash (–): Separates numbers in ranges. Mac: alt+dash.
Quote dash (―): Indicates the speaker or author of a quotation.