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How many people do you know that use em dashes —- none.
by throw-12-16 10mo ago
How many people do you know that use em dashes —- none.
- piskov 10mo agoDo yourself a favour and use typography layout https://ilyabirman.net/typography-layout/ https://ilyabirman.net/typography-layout/
- throw-12-16 10mo agoEnglish isn't my first language, so I already use an alternate layout.
- afiori 10mo agoI wrote in LaTeX for quite some time so, me.
- tomjakubowski 10mo agoEm-dash has a trivial and mnemonic shortcut on Macs (Option-shift-hyphen), so I've been an em-dash user for as long as I've had one.
- Anamon 10mo agoI committed typing en-dashes and ellipses on Windows to muscle memory. Alt+0150, Alt+0133. Bam! I'm sure there are easier ways this can be set up. But, as I said, muscle memory. Although I'll have to admit that wanting to use proper typography in the first place probably started when I was typesetting a print magazine on a Mac, where it's super easy to do it the proper way. (I'm also never going to let AI slop discourage me from trying to use proper punctuation.)