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punctuation – Dashes: – vs. – vs. — – TeX – LaTeX Stack Exchange

For this parenthetical usage, the em-dash is more common in US typography, while the en-dash is more common in UK typography. As a hyphen-replacement, functioning as a semantic linking element in a compound word (most frequently: a compound noun) that binds together two elements more loosely than a normal-space-in-that-same-compound.