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Yep, I am 46 and never knew the name of it until AI . Never used them

• fortyseven 1y ago
  I'm 49 and they're my bread and butter. Em-dashes Army unite!!
  • ynniv 1y ago
    surrounded by spaces... right?
    • JKCalhoun 1y ago
      Yeah, I do that. Maybe it's a reaction to badly kerned fonts I've encountered or maybe I just didn't notice the words were more or less joined by the em-dash. I guess I've been treating it as a long hyphen all this time.
    • kzhe 1y ago
      Only after, not before.
• JKCalhoun 1y ago
  Maybe the only cool thing to come out of this kooky obsession then: people are learning more about the wider world of punctuation. I just thought it was cool when I learned that there were glyphs with names that indicated how wide they were. And I believe the letter "x" is the standard for determining font height? Someone can correct me.
• brookst 1y ago
  Anyone working on HTML 20 years ago was very familiar with — as a layout/typography tool. I think I used them before that but learned the name from typing it so much.