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Yes emdashes are very much a sign. I stand by this. Why? What is the key combo to make an emdash? On a phone keyboard, sure, it's as hard as an accent sign (á
by Balgair 8mo ago
Yes emdashes are very much a sign. I stand by this. Why?
What is the key combo to make an emdash?
On a phone keyboard, sure, it's as hard as an accent sign (á, for example), difficult but not twrrible. But on a keyboard? Yeah, no one is typing in Alt combos when literally any other construction will do.
- mr_mitm 8mo agoYes, it's very tell tale in forum posts, but blog posts are often rendered markdown, where it's easy to type `--`. But it's not conclusive evidence in either case! The false positive rate is still not negligible if you only go by em dashes.
- SAI_Peregrinus 8mo agoRight control (compose), -, -, -. Alt combos are for Windows users who haven't discovered WinCompose, everybody else has some built-in way to enable it in their OS. If they're not on a US-English keyboard, either compose or AltGr is likely already enabled.
- professoretc 8mo ago> On a phone keyboard, sure, it's as hard as an accent sign (á, for example), difficult but not twrrible. But on a keyboard? Yeah, no one is typing in Alt combos when literally any other construction will do. For me, --- gets converted to an em-dash (—) while typing, if I have my input method (ELatin) enabled. I'm so used to typing in while working in LaTeX I can easily slip it in elsewhere.
- brycewray 8mo ago> What is the key combo to make an emdash? On macOS (and iPadOS if used with certain external keyboards), it has long been `Option` + `Shift` + `-`. Desktop publishing folks memorized this, and other, typographically helpful key combos many years ago.
- 1718627440 8mo agoAltGr - Hypen. How is that different from AltGr - Q for @, AltGr - E for € or even Shift - A? The difficulty is exactly the same.