| ▲ | BLKNSLVR 5 hours ago | |
That's the only way I know how to get an em dash. That's how I create them. I sometimes have to re-write something to force the "dash space <word> space" sequence in order for Word to create it, and then I copy and paste the em dash into the thing I'm working on. | ||
| ▲ | Terr_ an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
Alt-0151 on the numpad in Windows. Long-press on the hyphen on most Android keyboards. Or open whenever "Character Map" application that usually comes with any desktop OS, and copy it from there. | ||
| ▲ | leoc 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Windows 10/11’s clipboard stack lets you pin selections into the clipboard, so — and a variety of other characters live in mine. And on iOS you just hold down -, of course. | ||
| ▲ | robin_reala 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Option shift - in macOS (option - gives you an en dash). | ||
| ▲ | dboreham 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
You can Google search "em-dash" then copy/paste from the resulting page. | ||
| ▲ | cwnyth 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Ctrl+Shit+U + 2014 (em dash) or 2013 (en dash) in Linux. Former academic here, and I use the things all the time. You can find them all over my pre-LLM publications. | ||