That would be the "em dash" or "mutton" (though I've never seen or heard it called the latter.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em_dash#Em_dash
And an "em"? It's a typographical unit of measurement and the "—" dash is in fact 1em unit in width for any given font size (which by the way is measured in units called "points".) A "—" dash at font size 14 is 14 "points" (pt) wide, for example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em_%28typography%29 But what are "points" you ask? Twelfths of a "pica" which itself is 1/72th of 1 foot, or 1/6th of an inch, or my prefered answer, "very small". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_%28typography%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_%28typography%29 So now you know how dashes and font sizes relates to some british king's feet size. Who knew, right?! On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Fx Person <fxper...@rocketmail.com> wrote: > By the name of it, I was expecting like a squished little circle lol! > > Of course I've seen that a bunch of times, but thought it was more to > express like "etcetera" > > I'll also look-up what's the long dash also briefly referenced in the > article (about the three little dots) > > And guess I was missing a dot :) > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Stephen Blair <stephenrbl...@gmail.com> > ** > Hi > > In English writing, especially in e-mail messages, an ellipsis is used to > indicate a pause or a falter, or a trailing off ... > > http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/ellipsis.aspx > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis > > > > > On 07/01/2013 12:10 PM, Fx Person wrote: > > Hi Brent, > > > As for the punctuation, perhaps. The double dots .. are meant to act > like “long pauses” to which I’m not aware of a standard way of expressing > that. > I have seen the extended(long) dash used as such, though not exactly, & I > actually didn’t find it in the Character Map. > > > > >
