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I believe that's only on MacOS.

by jml7c5 2y ago

n2d4 2y ago
Seems like you're correct. Interesting!
dragonwriter 2y ago
I think Microsoft Office (maybe jiat Word, but definitely not Windows) has a similar default shortcut.
- harrall 2y ago
  You don't need a shortcut on Word. You just type two hyphens (--) and Word will convert it to an em dash.
  - hunter2_ 2y ago
    Across the Office suite: Typing <word><hyphenminus><hyphenminus><word><space> yields an em dash. Typing <word><space><hyphenminus><hyphenminus><space><word><space> yields an en dash. That this has been true for some 3 or 4 decades makes me doubt all the comments that em dashes are a "tell" of LLM authorship. On the other hand, I guess when we confine this possibility to web content, I can see how people haven't used Office for web authoring lately, and whatever they do use (like web-based content management systems) don't tend to have this feature.
    - iggldiggl 2y ago
      > Typing <word><space><hyphenminus><hyphenminus><space><word><space> yields an en dash. More importantly, typing just a single hyphen minus in this constellation triggers the autoreplace, too. (Typing the double hyphen is only necessary without spaces in order to distinguish between an intentional hyphen and an em dash.)
      - hunter2_ 2y ago
        Good point. Either way, it's kind of peculiar that getting an en dash in this manner demands flanking the hyphen(s) with spaces, and those spaces persist after replacement, when the typical usage of an en dash specifically doesn't demand spaces. From TFA: > August 1–August 31 From a top comment: > Boston–San Francisco flight, 10–20 years To achieve this using the replacement feature we're talking about would take something like <word><space><hyphenminus><space><word><space><alt+leftarrow><bksp><leftarrow><bksp><alt+rightarrow> which is ridiculous. In professional typesetting, like a book, I sometimes see spaces flanking an em dash, however.
    - venusenvy47 2y ago
      I can't get this to work in Powerpoint. It's funny, I clicked on this thread because I was struggling with trying to make an "emdash" in Powerpoint yesterday and couldn't find the correct search term for the "long hyphen" that I was looking for.
      - hunter2_ 2y ago
        Works fine for me on PowerPoint for Mac, oddly enough. Unrelatedly, Mac also allows easy (non-alt-code) keyboard entry: option-hyphen yields an en dash, while option-shift-hyphen yields an em dash.
- QuantumGood 2y ago
  Turns into different things (like a bulleted list) in different situations in Word, though.

I believe that's only on MacOS.

by jml7c5 2y ago

I believe that's only on MacOS.

n2d4 2y ago

Seems like you're correct. Interesting!

dragonwriter 2y ago

I think Microsoft Office (maybe jiat Word, but definitely not Windows) has a similar default shortcut.

harrall 2y ago
You don't need a shortcut on Word. You just type two hyphens (--) and Word will convert it to an em dash.
- hunter2_ 2y ago
  Across the Office suite: Typing <word><hyphenminus><hyphenminus><word><space> yields an em dash. Typing <word><space><hyphenminus><hyphenminus><space><word><space> yields an en dash. That this has been true for some 3 or 4 decades makes me doubt all the comments that em dashes are a "tell" of LLM authorship. On the other hand, I guess when we confine this possibility to web content, I can see how people haven't used Office for web authoring lately, and whatever they do use (like web-based content management systems) don't tend to have this feature.
  - iggldiggl 2y ago
    > Typing <word><space><hyphenminus><hyphenminus><space><word><space> yields an en dash. More importantly, typing just a single hyphen minus in this constellation triggers the autoreplace, too. (Typing the double hyphen is only necessary without spaces in order to distinguish between an intentional hyphen and an em dash.)
    - hunter2_ 2y ago
      Good point. Either way, it's kind of peculiar that getting an en dash in this manner demands flanking the hyphen(s) with spaces, and those spaces persist after replacement, when the typical usage of an en dash specifically doesn't demand spaces. From TFA: > August 1–August 31 From a top comment: > Boston–San Francisco flight, 10–20 years To achieve this using the replacement feature we're talking about would take something like <word><space><hyphenminus><space><word><space><alt+leftarrow><bksp><leftarrow><bksp><alt+rightarrow> which is ridiculous. In professional typesetting, like a book, I sometimes see spaces flanking an em dash, however.
  - venusenvy47 2y ago
    I can't get this to work in Powerpoint. It's funny, I clicked on this thread because I was struggling with trying to make an "emdash" in Powerpoint yesterday and couldn't find the correct search term for the "long hyphen" that I was looking for.
    - hunter2_ 2y ago
      Works fine for me on PowerPoint for Mac, oddly enough. Unrelatedly, Mac also allows easy (non-alt-code) keyboard entry: option-hyphen yields an en dash, while option-shift-hyphen yields an em dash.
QuantumGood 2y ago
Turns into different things (like a bulleted list) in different situations in Word, though.