There are different kinds of dashes.
When someone writes a letter, or sometimes when someone is quoted, they will end with a dash, followed by the person's name. The question is, What kind of dash are you supposed to use, ideally?—since there are many dashes.
There are at least the following dashes: en dashes (–), em dashes (—), quotation dashes (―), figure dashes (‒), hyphens (-), etc.
Anyway, I suspect an em dash would work in the absence of a quotation dash (which might be ideal). The smaller dashes appear to be too small to be what I'm asking about. Can anyone verify or deny this?
Here's an example of where this would be used:
Dear someone or other,
Paragraphs of text here …
—Me
(I used an em dash there.)
Anyway, I hope this clarifies things at least a little. If it doesn't, could you let me know more specifically what it is that doesn't make sense? Thanks!