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> 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
by 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...