jarrod
jarrod

Oh no. I’ve just realized that I’ve been using en dashes (–) where I should have been using em dashes (β€”) for years and nobody told me. And I love en β€” well, actually β€” em dashes. I may never recover.

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chiawase
chiawase

@jarrod welcome to the β€” club! πŸ˜†

After reading your linked article, I only learned now that the em dash with spaces around it is technically accepted as a way to type them. I thought all this time it was wrong... πŸ˜†

Also appreciating en dashes here. But I hope they can make the character a bit more accessible in terms of typing it πŸ˜…

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jarrod
jarrod

@RianVDM Never!*
*Maybe not never.

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jarrod
jarrod

@chiawase I’m considering using a text replacement to make it easier, but adding a shift didn’t seem too bad earlier.

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LeoWong
LeoWong

@jarrod I use en dashes with a space before and after. Dealing with the dash

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jarrod
jarrod

@LeoWong There’s a lot to digest in that article. It at least makes me feel better about all the text I’ve put out there with spaced en dashes thus far.

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joshuapsteele
joshuapsteele

@jarrod all is forgiven 😁

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