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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 "emoji
by 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 agoKCharSelect on KDE Plasma is a good alternative on Linux.
- js2 3y agoBring 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...