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Technically, in latex (and what other format is there?) an en-dash is `--` and an em-dash is `---`. So that was just an em-dash. A `-` is a hyphen.

Us oldies learnt to type these with multiple dashes automatically, as unicode hadn't been invented yet.

This arms race leading, somewhat inevitably, to the development of the eminem-dash.

-- - --

----- .---- ----- ----- .---- ----- ----- ----- ....... ----- .---- .---- ----- .---- .---- ----- .---- ....... ----- .---- .---- ----- .---- .---- ----- .----

Hahahaha nice.

...._ .. ...._ ``````‾ ••••••—

The Darude-Sandstorm dash

I've taken to using the three-em dash⸻it's very whimsical.