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Usage varies both within English and in other languages, but the usual convention in printed English text is as follows:
* '''An em dash or a spaced en dash'''
* '''The en dash but not the em dash''' indicates spans or differentiation, where it may be considered to replace "and" or "to" (but not "to" in the phrase "from … to …"):<ref>''[http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/index.html MHRA Style Guide: A Handbook for Authors, Editors, and Writers of Theses]'', 2nd ed, p. 26. Modern Humanities Research Association (London). Accessed 3 February 2013.</ref><blockquote>The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was fought in western Pennsylvania and along the present US–Canada border (Edwards, pp. 81–101).</blockquote>
* '''The em dash or the horizontal bar, but not the en dash''' is used to set off the sources of quotes:<blockquote>Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.—Mahatma Gandhi</blockquote>
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