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jandy | 6 months ago

Fwiw, that’s actually an En dash not an Em dash. You need a Shift in there to get an Em dash.

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latexr|6 months ago

It depends on the keyboard layout. Some (US) do have it like you described, but others have the dashes reversed.

Both make sense, to a degree. On the one hand you can argue that the em-dash—being longer—should require and extra key, but on the other hand it has more uses so it should not have the extra key to be more accessible.

jandy|6 months ago

Ah I hadn’t considered keyboard layouts.