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Some keyboards and operating systems — iOS is one of them — convert two dashes into an emdash.
by nicbou 10mo ago
Some keyboards and operating systems — iOS is one of them — convert two dashes into an emdash.
- Nevermark 10mo agoI can’t wait for my keyboard to start auto-completing “Your” with “are absolutely right!”
- nicbou 10mo agoIn this case Apple has cared about typography since its very beginning. Steve Jobs obsessed over it. The OS also replaces simple quotes with fancier ones. I do the same on my websites. It's embedded into my static site generator. Very related: https://practicaltypography.com/ https://practicaltypography.com/
- Nevermark 10mo agoAgreed that is useful, despite the unintended consequences of dash meddling.
- Sharlin 10mo agoAnd macOS, at least my keyboard layout, has both en and em dashes easily typeable with Alt+- and Alt+Shift+- respectively.
- JoeJonathan 10mo agoI use emdashes and endashes all the time—but maybe that's because I'm an academic?
- Sharlin 10mo agoI use them – well, mostly en dashes because that's the custom where I'm from – because I'm a bit of a typography nerd and have grown to dislike the barrenness of ASCII.