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Yeah, this is what I don't understand, surely people aren't "using" em dashes deliberately. I assumed MS word was just inserting them automatically when the use
by jay_kyburz 10mo ago
Yeah, this is what I don't understand, surely people aren't "using" em dashes deliberately. I assumed MS word was just inserting them automatically when the user used a minus symbol between two words. Kind of like angled quotes.
- buu700 10mo agoI've been using em dashes for much longer than transformers have existed. It's easily accessible on at least the Android and macOS keyboards.
- acuozzo 10mo ago> surely people aren't "using" em dashes deliberately I've had a "trigger finger" for Alt+0151 on Windows since 2010 at least.
- whstl 10mo agoWhen I worked in company that did content marketing and had a lot of writers, one of the coffee mugs they gave to us had Alt+0151 in it! Em-Dash was really popular with professional writers.
- pxc 10mo agoI use them when they're easy to type. For me, that's on Android, macOS, and anywhere I've configured a compose key. Angled quotes I use only on systems on which I've configured a compose key, or Android when I'm typing Chinese. I don't like any kind of auto-replacement with physical keyboards, so I turn off "smart quotes" on macOS. Anyway I use characters like that all the time, but it's never auto-replace.
- eqvinox 10mo ago> surely people aren't "using" em dashes deliberately I am, it's on the default German X11 keyboard layout. Same for · × ÷ … And that's without going to the trusty compose key (Caps Lock for me)… wonders like ½ and H₂O await!
- jay_kyburz 10mo agoupdate: I read that word will place an em dash if you use two dashes "--"