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Yes, people use the em dash. The point isn't the em dash itself. It's about U+2014. Yeah, in a book, or maybe a quality article, you'd type the em dash properly
by serbuvlad 1y ago
Yes, people use the em dash. The point isn't the em dash itself. It's about U+2014. Yeah, in a book, or maybe a quality article, you'd type the em dash properly. But most of the time online? I write it as - or as --.
- anon7000 1y agoiOS, and probably plenty of other operating systems, converts that into dash automatically by default. 2x “-“ > “—“ So that’s just a bad signal
- kzhe 1y agobut that looks worse, it's horrible. i have espanso set up to quick replace "-=" with — on desktop and on my phone i use futo keyboard, which has the aesthetically inspring em dash one hold and swipe on the h key away.
- JimDabell 1y agoWhen you type -- on iOS or macOS it gets auto-converted to U+2014.
- serbuvlad 1y agoWow, that's pretty cool. I've never used an Apple product, so I had no idea.
- Philadelphia 1y agoOn iOS, you can also hold down the hyphen and get a popup menu with an em dash option (along with en dash and a bullet). On Macs, you can get an em dash with option-shift-hyphen.