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Pressing "-" and a space gets replaced by an emdash to me in LibreOffice. No extra keystrokes required.
by johnisgood 1y ago
Pressing "-" and a space gets replaced by an emdash to me in LibreOffice. No extra keystrokes required.
- benji-york 1y agoI don't think the character is that uncommon in the output of slightly-sophisticated writers and is not hard to generate (e.g., on macOS pressing option-shift-minus generates an em-dash).
- Kerrick 1y agoIn fact, on macOS and iOS simply typing two dashes (--) gets autocorrected to an em dash. I used it heavily, which was a bit sloppy since it doesn't also insert the customary hair spaces around the em dash. Incidentally, I turned this autocorrection off when people started associating em dashes with AI writing. I now leave them manual double dashes--even less correct than before, but at least people are more likely to read my writing.
- Izkata 1y agoThat's an en dash, not an em dash. An em dash is longer and as far as I know Libreoffice doesn't have a built-in way to make one (though you may have added it to the autocorrect settings yourself). en dash: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2013 https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2013 em dash: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2014 https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2014 Edit: Ah, Libreoffice does have a built-in autocorrect for em dash, but you have to type this: :---:
- johnisgood 1y agoThanks! I did confuse the two despite knowing of both. So ":---:" does work for the em dash? I thought something with fewer keystrokes work, too, at least I remember the em dash from less, but perhaps I just typed it so quickly I did not realize it was indeed ":---:".