Notes

Straight Lines

There are a ton of straight lines commonly seen in English text.

• ‐ - the hyphen, used to join breaks within words or compound words
• – - the en-dash, used for spans of numbers or compound adjectives
• — - the em-dash, used in place of colons, commas, and parentheses
• _ - the underscore, originally used to underline words by typewriters
• | - the vertical bar of many uses.

This doesn’t even include the dozens of singular lines available in Unicode.