| ▲ | cubefox 4 hours ago | |
Then how do you type in an en dash instead? Also, according to LLMs, the en dash is used in far more languages than the em dash. Many languages don't use the em dash at all. Using the em dash for sentence interruptions seems to be specifically an US American English tradition: Most languages which use dashes for sentence interruptions use spaced en dashes instead. | ||
| ▲ | noisem4ker 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
> how do you type in an en dash instead? By pressing the "-" key for half a second and choosing the exact dash character I am looking for in the pop-up that shows near the caret. KDE Plasma: Press-and-Hold for Alternative Characters https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/14/this-week-in-plasma-press-a... | ||
| ▲ | Sharlin 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I get en dash with alt+- and em dash with alt+shift+-. One of the niceties of the macOS keyboard layouts. There’s also the ellipsis and middot among other things. | ||