Some entertaining and readable sites describe the differences among the different kinds of dashes.
Back in the old days (do you remember a word processor called WordStar?) we were taught to type one space after a comma and two spaces after a period. Other punctuation symbols followed a complex series of rules that don't really matter much any more.
However, since the 1990s, with the advent of typefaces that offer proportional spacing, and especially with Windows 95, these rules have changed. The unknown cadet who determined these rules decided otherwise. Everything now gets a single space. (Imagine spending your entire life deciding which punctuation deserves a double space and which deserves a single space!) (Perhaps the official title of our friend should be the Space Cadet).
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