Quickly insert an n-dash or m-dash in Microsoft Word Insert an n-dash or m-dash on a web page or blog When to use the hyphen, dash, n-dash and m-dash Note that the hyphen is a bit lower-down on the line of text than the minus sign and the dashes, plus it is very short – it looks too low and too small when used in mathematical expressions. But in the WordPress editor the minus sign looks 50% longer than the n-dash! This probably illustrates software inconsistencies – which might suggest it is pointless to obsess about the pixel-level differences between the various options for Unicode minus signs. On my PC in Chrome or Firefox, the minus sign looks a wee bit shorter than the n-dash. I’ve viewed this page on some tablets where, in the table above, the symbols all look the same. Please note: These characters are rendered very differently on different devices. Here’s how: The minus sign is slightly thinner and has a sliver of space between itself and the adjacent characters. Only an obsessive typography freak could tell whether you used a minus sign or an N-dash.
It would be very hard to pick the right symbol from the map, but in the field ‘character code’ you can enter a code that finds the right one… Symbol This opens a tool showing all of the characters for every font on your computer. Go to ‘insert’ / ‘symbol’ / ‘more symbols’. If you want to insert a ‘proper’ minus sign in Word, here’s how: To look closely at the differences, use ‘Ctrl’ and spin your mouse wheel to zoom in/out on most browsers, or just zoom in with your fingers on a tablet. Unicode (the standard for electronically encoding text information) has separate codes for the minus sign, hyphen and N-dash. A reader asked about the difference between a minus symbol and an N-dash (thanks Tem).
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