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I use the en-dash (Alt+0150) instead of the em. The en-dash and the em-dash are interchangeable in Finnish. The shorter form has more "inoffensive" look-and-fe
by kurkku 1y ago
I use the en-dash (Alt+0150) instead of the em.
The en-dash and the em-dash are interchangeable in Finnish. The shorter form has more "inoffensive" look-and-feel and maybe that's why it's used more often here.
Now that I think of it, I don't seem to remember the alt code of the em-dash...
- latexr 1y ago> The en-dash and the em-dash are interchangeable in Finnish. But not in English, where the en-dash is used to denote ranges.
- d1sxeyes 1y agoI wonder whether ChatGPT and the like use more en dashes in Finnish, and whether this is seen as a sign that someone is using an LLM? In casual English, both em and en dashes are typically typed as a hyphen because this is what’s available readily on the keyboard. Do you have en dashes on a Finnish keyboard?
- latexr 1y ago> Do you have en dashes on a Finnish keyboard? Unlikely. But Apple’s operating systems by default change characters to their correct typographic counterparts automatically. Personally, I type them myself: my muscle memory knows exactly which keys to press for — – “” ‘’ and more.
- dragonwriter 1y agoThe main uses of the em-dash (set closed as separators of parts of sentences, with different semantics when single or paired) can be substituted in English with an en-dash set open. This is not ambiguous with the use of en-dash set closed for ranges, because of spacing. There are a few less common uses that an en-dash doesn’t substitute for, though.