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Barnes · 05-31-2012, 04:06 PM

I've been searching various style guides for help on using spaced dashes, en dashes, or em dashes on how to represent some range data properly. I know that a spaced dash is preferred to denote a range but how do you do it with negative values?

Say I have some data I want to present in sort of a tabular format that is negative values. Say temperatures:

January (-5° - -29°), February (-10° - -14°), March (-3° - 8°)

Is this correct?

Is there a better way?

Is there a style guide out there that defines this?

05-31-2012, 04:06 PM	#1
Barnes Franchise Player Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Violating Copyrights Exp:	Need Help From Grammar Nazis and English Nerds I've been searching various style guides for help on using spaced dashes, en dashes, or em dashes on how to represent some range data properly. I know that a spaced dash is preferred to denote a range but how do you do it with negative values? Say I have some data I want to present in sort of a tabular format that is negative values. Say temperatures: January (-5° - -29°), February (-10° - -14°), March (-3° - 8°) Is this correct? Is there a better way? Is there a style guide out there that defines this?