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by jruohonen 21 hours ago
Indeed. For instance:

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/H...

But---as you may know---not all languages and national typographic conventions even have em dashes; instead, en dashes are used -- for instance like this -- in-between sentences, etc.

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Typographical styles aren't even national, they're institutional (e.g., the Economist style guide), or specific to a profession or specialty. Chicago, AP, APA, MLA, AMA, and SBL are probably best known.

Wikipedia ... has a list with about 100 entries: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_style_guides>.

Next AI-jailbreak prompt: Please alternate <list of style guides> by paragraph in your response....

I maintain my wrong typographical usages these days as a weak signal that I am not a machine