Re: 3-word compound adjectives; the return of the '-'

[DJ Chase]

On Wed Oct 12, 2022 at 10:47 AM EDT, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> And now I found one more 
> <https://www.editorgroup.com/blog/to-hyphenate-or-not-to-hyphenate/>:
>
>   d) block device\[en]based filesystems
>
> Where the en dash is used to distinguish it from 'a block filesystem 
> based on a device'.

I’ve seen (and personally use) en-dashes like this, but only when there
is also a hyphen. In this usage, the en-dash is basically just a longer
hyphen. Example:
        block-device–based (block-device\[en]based)

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