ByteOnBikes to [email protected] • 5 days agoDamn she had AI write itdiscuss.onlineimagemessage-square230fedilinkarrow-up1836
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•edit-25 days agoSure. Most people don’t know what an OS is, let alone how to enter special characters.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•5 days agoI think this is something macOS does best — using shift+option hyphen is a bit quicker than alt+0151.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•5 days agoLong pressing the hyphen on the Google keyboard on Android also gives the option of selecting an en dash or em dash. On Linux, if you have the compose key enabled, Compose key + three hyphens in a row will generate an em dash (en dash is two hyphens).
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•5 days ago…well I’m definitely turning that on for my Linux machine then. Thanks for the tip.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•5 days agoIt’s convenient for a lot of things. Curly quotes, specialized dashes, mathematical symbols or Greek letters used in math/science, foreign currencies, things like paragraph symbols (¶) or section symbols (§), etc.
Sure. Most people don’t know what an OS is, let alone how to enter special characters.
I think this is something macOS does best — using shift+option hyphen is a bit quicker than alt+0151.
Long pressing the hyphen on the Google keyboard on Android also gives the option of selecting an en dash or em dash.
On Linux, if you have the compose key enabled, Compose key + three hyphens in a row will generate an em dash (en dash is two hyphens).
…well I’m definitely turning that on for my Linux machine then. Thanks for the tip.
It’s convenient for a lot of things. Curly quotes, specialized dashes, mathematical symbols or Greek letters used in math/science, foreign currencies, things like paragraph symbols (¶) or section symbols (§), etc.