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i was always curious how these em dashes were written? like in my keyboard i dont see the symbol, is there any shortcut?

• megous 8mo ago
  Some markdown-like static blog generators just replace -- with emdash. I used one such in the past, written in PHP by someone who was keen on proper typography.
• furyofantares 8mo ago
  On macOS, option plus hyphen gives an em-dash. Also if you're on macOS you should try some other keyboard keys too with option.
  • frizlab 8mo ago
    I believe em-dash are made using shift-option-dash. AFAIK option-dash gives an en-dash.
    • furyofantares 8mo ago
      Yeah that's right, thanks.
• xigoi 8mo ago
  On Linux, it’s [Compose]--- (or [Compose]--. for an en dash)