Here, have an em dash, on me. I’ll take the fall: —
You know what, I’ve started using em dashes more since the advent of “AI”, in protest. I even learned how to type it out on desktop using its Unicode number, 2014. En dash is 2013, on a related note. Pretty useful IMO.
The em-dash is part of properly setting text in a book. Just because those LLM breeders stole gazillions of books to feed their abominations does not make the use of the em-dash wrong.
Neither does the use of proper opening and closing quotes, apostrophes where they belong, or thinspace at certain places a crime. It is just a sign that someone knows the rules of typesetting.
Here, have an em dash, on me. I’ll take the fall: —
You know what, I’ve started using em dashes more since the advent of “AI”, in protest. I even learned how to type it out on desktop using its Unicode number, 2014. En dash is 2013, on a related note. Pretty useful IMO.
The em-dash is part of properly setting text in a book. Just because those LLM breeders stole gazillions of books to feed their abominations does not make the use of the em-dash wrong.
Neither does the use of proper opening and closing quotes, apostrophes where they belong, or thinspace at certain places a crime. It is just a sign that someone knows the rules of typesetting.
Right, that’s exactly my point. Nobody is going to steal this knowledge from me, or my right to use it. Screw these AI companies.
FWIW all major OSes support it without having to remember the alt code now
Mac: opt+shift+hyphen
Windows: win+shift+hyphen
Linux: compose, —
Mobile OSes: hold on hyphen
Does the compose key work with Wayland? I haven’t found a way.
I just use Ctrl+Shift+u, followed by the code point. 🤷♂️
Alexandrite.app seems to put it in for you with three hypens — neat!
Ah, that is nice! I don’t use it but that’s an excellent feature.