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Hard hyphens and dashes

This  use of these lines varies from language to language and their use in a Bible manuscript requires standardization. As shown in Table [*], there are 3 sizes of dashes available. However, the use of each size dash should be carefully defined and standardized throughout the whole project.
 
Table: The three sizes of dashes available
 
Kind of dash and use Typed as Printed as
Hyphen : hyphenation, compound words father-inlaw father-inlaw
En-dash : spans of verse numbers and time 2:11--19 2:11-19
  April--June April-June
Em-dash : phrases;spans of chapters light.>>---and light light.''--and light
  1:23---3:22 1:23--3:22




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