en-dash

For numbers: instead of 1977-2007, use 1997 – 2007 (en-dash).

Archive 2009-05-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

For numbers: instead of 1977-2007, use 1997 – 2007 (en-dash).

Using proper “curly quotes” instead of "straight quotes" Jonathan Aquino 2009

Maybe use a double dash (en-dash?) after the words ‘Gary Smith’ in the first sentence, instead of the comma.

Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » What do you think about this query letter for Superhero Nation? 2010

And more so than other aspects of writing, punctuation has the visual aesthetic to address; what other reason is there to choose between the hyphen, the en-dash, and the em-dash?

2008 September « Motivated Grammar 2008

And more so than other aspects of writing, punctuation has the visual aesthetic to address; what other reason is there to choose between the hyphen, the en-dash, and the em-dash?

National Punctuation Day « Motivated Grammar 2008

I tried to convince myself that it's just decoration--it's not even long enough to be an en-dash, but it's nevertheless there.

languagehat.com: LOVE—AND THE PHILOSOPHER. 2005

The en-dash is also sometimes used as hyphenation between words that are already hyphenated, for example,

The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 Jim Tinsley

(HTML and some character sets do provide separate entities for en-dash and em-dash.)

The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 Jim Tinsley

For example, if you were printing "1830-1874", or "9: 00-5: 30", you would use an en-dash instead of a hyphen.

The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 Jim Tinsley

In typography, there are four standard types of dashes: the hyphen, the en-dash, the em-dash, and the three-em-dash.

The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 Jim Tinsley