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this is the start of everything falling apart, i can feel it (thelemmy.club)

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image saying "at least the important software isn't being vibe cod-" (cut off) and showing a graph of em dashes in the linux kernel over time with a sharp rise the past few years

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[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago (4 children)

aren't those regular dashes? em dashes seem just a bit longer

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago* (3 children)

N dashes. They are as wide as an n. M dashes are as wide as an m.

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[–] spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But what is em?

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago

It's a width same as point size of a font: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em_(typography)

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[–] moriquende@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Em means the letter M. That's what it's called. Historically, M in a font was equally as wide as it was tall, so it's used to refer to the font size.

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