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I use double dash -- for long dashes.

Hmm, I don't think my iPhone has ever autocorrected it for me, at least not on Stacker News.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 7 Jan

I prefer the rustic appeal of the double en -- makes me feel like I'm a lumberjack or something.

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The ASCII hyphen is not either em nor en dash; ironically enough, by definition, both coincide with it when you consider the typical low-resolution, low-effort fixed-width fonts. The definition of the usual suspects is simply that the dash is the same width as the letter, lowercase en or lowercase em.

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you need to set it up in the txt replacement settings

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Just tested on my Macbook:

  • -- autocorrects into em-dash (\u2014)
  • <alt> - produces en-dash (\u2013)
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