To bring some activity to this community beyond the writing club, here’s a guide on how to use dashes and hyphens. Do you use these in your own writing?
Totally overuse em dashes! I have to edit out a lot of them.
Step 1: be a bot
idgi, is it like an llm thing?
There was a post a while back claiming only bots post using em dashes.
I love the emdash—I use it all the time! And ofc I always use an endash to denote ranges. My first name is hyphenated too
So do i—the emdash is one of my favorite characters. I never use the endash, though.
Nice! Do you ever use two hyphens together in the place of an em dash?
On macos I know how to insert them using opt+hyphen (endash) and shift+opt+hyphen (emdash). I need to figure out how to get that on linux. Thankfully I think obsidian renders – and — as en dash and em dash so I use them in my notes, and typst does as well.
If I can’t easily do it I’ll usually use – in place of an emdash and I’ll just use a hyphen for where I’d use an endash.
I also just know the html code by heart so in placesi can use html like in markdown I’ll just use
–and—(yeah… they remove the leading e to make it shorter haha)thank you. This is really useful information :)
a dash here
a dash there
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