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When To Use Em Dashes Instead Of Commas

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687 Em dashes with other punctuation. However some style guides such as The Chicago Manual of Style prescribe unspaced em dashes. Punctuation Where When Why And How To Use It Xterraweb Editing Writing Writing A Book Punctuation Em dashes are the same width as the font height. When to use em dashes instead of commas . You can also use it to put emphasis on the ending of your sentence. The em dash is used to highlight a. Please see the companion informational PEP describing style guidelines for the C code in the C implementation of Python. This document and PEP 257 Docstring Conventions were adapted from Guidos original Python Style Guide essay with some additions from. My brothersRichard and Johnare visiting Hanoi. Instead you place the period after the parenthetical sentence. Also use the en dash in chemical abbreviations such as NiAlSi. 521 Use spaced en dashes - rather than close-set em dashes or spaced hyphens - to set off phrases. Its up to you. The e