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?

  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 天前

    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

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      11 小时前

      So do i—the emdash is one of my favorite characters. I never use the endash, though.

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        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)