Good point, but I think it's a little more complex than that. To my knowledge (and what I meant by "old school"), it was common to type a "--" dash on typewrit

Good point, but I think it's a little more complex than that. To my knowledge (and what I meant by "old school"), it was common to type a "--" dash on typewriters[0] because most of them lacked en- and em-dashes, which are obviously not digital documentation devices. But yes, typesetters of old (old, old school!) had myriad glyph blocks available to them for pressing! -- [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#Typewriter_conventions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#Typewriter_conventi...