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by broquaint 2109 days ago
Might I also recommend Keith Houston's wonderful book "Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punc­tu­ation, Sym­bols, & Other Ty­po­graph­ical Marks":

https://shadycharacters.co.uk/books/shady-characters-the-boo...

He also posts, with some regularity, to his blog on the same topic:

https://shadycharacters.co.uk/

Employing the correct usage of hyphens, en dashes and em dashes continues to be a small daily joy for me.