• Axolotl@feddit.it
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    22 days ago

    Did you memorize the alt code to make one?

    Fun fact: on some keyboard layouts you can access the em dash easly

    This is the most common Italian layout

    You can see that you just need to press control+hyphen

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      22 days ago

      The marking above the hyphen there is an underscore — it’s telling you that hitting shift-hyphen will give you an underscore.

      You may be using software that supports inserting an em-dash when you hit that combination, but I don’t believe that it’s the keyboard layout that dictates that.

      searches

      It sounds like Microsoft Word does something similar:

      https://www.avantixlearning.ca/microsoft-word/how-to-insert-an-em-dash-or-en-dash-in-a-word-document-4-ways/

      Use Ctrl with keyboard shortcuts to insert an em or en dash

      To insert an em dash, click where you want to insert the em dash and then press Ctrl + Alt + – (minus sign on the numeric keypad).

      To insert an en dash, click where you want to insert the en dash and then press Ctrl + – (minus sign on the numeric keypad).