Dr. Amy, Psy.D.1d ago
You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands. I had them before AI was conceived and I’ll have them long after it’s gone.
Show threadDavey

@dramypsyd they've always been out of my grasp due to a reliance on Windows and Linux. Having a keyboard without a numpad has really finished it.

It's a shame cus I do associate them with people that do the good writing with sentences and all.

Mar 25 at 1:34pmWeb
Show threadChris Fox20h ago

@davey_cakes @dramypsyd

I have Emacs set up to make it easy to enter en-dash, em-dash, ellipsis, and proper quotation marks, but there are alternatives:

https://ladedu.com/how-to-insert-en-dash-and-em-dash-on-linux/

Insert En Dash ( – ) and Em Dash ( — ) on Linux: Here’s How

Unsure how to produce en dash and em dash on Linux, looking for the typographically correct characters instead of a dash-dash-dash replacement? Find out here how to insert en dash (–) and em dash (—) on Linux using the keyboard or character pickers.

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Show threadrood14h ago
@davey_cakes @dramypsyd alt 151 is printed on my mind. Also alt 133.