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“I Am the Gap Between Knowing and Saying”: The En Dash Responds to the Em Dash
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It depends on the font whether an em dash is longer or shorter than an en dash surrounded by spaces. But Bringhurst's comment is more about aesthetics. I also find the en dash with spaces visually more pleasing and more logical to set parenthetical sentences apart, rather than the em dash without spaces. The latter invites me to join sentences.
But it's all a matter of personal tastes of course! :)