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> Otherwise, we should all prioritize making our products flimsier and more expensive. It's the view of many that this is indeed what most companies prioritize

> Otherwise, we should all prioritize making our products flimsier and more expensive. It's the view of many that this is indeed what most companies prioritize — I'm not saying it's true, but it doesn't seem to be a particularly fringe opinion. It's in the vein of enshittification. Also, might I ask how you inserted that em-dash? A keyboard shortcut? It's interesting to see fancy typography online.

peterhadlaw 3y ago
One can look up the utf8 character for different typographical characters and copy and paste them in. On macOS at least, there is a keyboard shortcut for "emojis" (Cntl+Cmd+Space) and a little window shows up where you can search for emojis by name, and typographical characters by name (such as "em dash"). —pjh
- xcdzvyn 3y ago
  > One can look up the utf8 character for different typographical characters and copy and paste them in. Haha, yeah, that's what I usually do. But it's arduous enough for me not to bother for a HN comment. That's why I brought it up. I love macOS' emoji picker thing, I wish there were something like it on Linux.
  - butterknife 3y ago
    KCharSelect on KDE Plasma is a good alternative on Linux.
  - js2 3y ago
    Bring up the keyboard viewer widget on macOS and it will show you a live preview of what each key is... you can hold down the modifiers to see how the keys change. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-the-keyboard-viewer-on-mac-mchlp1015/mac https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-the-keyboard-vi... Also—FWIW—an m-dash should not have whitespace on either side, at least, not in America. :-) https://medium.com/typography/on-dashes-hyphens-and-other-important-aspects-of-life-989bb7902cf3 https://medium.com/typography/on-dashes-hyphens-and-other-im... https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/mind-your-en-and-em-dashes-typographic-etiquette/ https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/mind-your-en-and-em...
cwillu 3y ago
WinCompose is wonderfully intuitive for those on operating systems without one included stock.
nor-and-or-not 3y ago
In macOS you can also use: option+minus for en-dash – and shift+option+minus for em-dash —
- vladvasiliu 3y ago
  This can be reproduced on Linux using the "mac" layout. "option" is "level 3 shift" on Linux. This works on X11, I haven't tried on Wayland. On Windows it works, too, by grabbing the "us - mac" layout and using the alt-gr for the mac's option. I think this is the layout I use: https://github.com/adunning/Mac-Keyboard-Layouts-for-Windows https://github.com/adunning/Mac-Keyboard-Layouts-for-Windows
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peterhadlaw 3y ago

One can look up the utf8 character for different typographical characters and copy and paste them in. On macOS at least, there is a keyboard shortcut for "emojis" (Cntl+Cmd+Space) and a little window shows up where you can search for emojis by name, and typographical characters by name (such as "em dash"). —pjh

xcdzvyn 3y ago
> One can look up the utf8 character for different typographical characters and copy and paste them in. Haha, yeah, that's what I usually do. But it's arduous enough for me not to bother for a HN comment. That's why I brought it up. I love macOS' emoji picker thing, I wish there were something like it on Linux.
- butterknife 3y ago
  KCharSelect on KDE Plasma is a good alternative on Linux.
- js2 3y ago
  Bring up the keyboard viewer widget on macOS and it will show you a live preview of what each key is... you can hold down the modifiers to see how the keys change. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-the-keyboard-viewer-on-mac-mchlp1015/mac https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-the-keyboard-vi... Also—FWIW—an m-dash should not have whitespace on either side, at least, not in America. :-) https://medium.com/typography/on-dashes-hyphens-and-other-important-aspects-of-life-989bb7902cf3 https://medium.com/typography/on-dashes-hyphens-and-other-im... https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/mind-your-en-and-em-dashes-typographic-etiquette/ https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/mind-your-en-and-em...

cwillu 3y ago

WinCompose is wonderfully intuitive for those on operating systems without one included stock.

nor-and-or-not 3y ago

In macOS you can also use: option+minus for en-dash – and shift+option+minus for em-dash —

vladvasiliu 3y ago
This can be reproduced on Linux using the "mac" layout. "option" is "level 3 shift" on Linux. This works on X11, I haven't tried on Wayland. On Windows it works, too, by grabbing the "us - mac" layout and using the alt-gr for the mac's option. I think this is the layout I use: https://github.com/adunning/Mac-Keyboard-Layouts-for-Windows https://github.com/adunning/Mac-Keyboard-Layouts-for-Windows

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