s@piefed.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoMandatory self-reflection hoursmedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square49linkfedilinkarrow-up1430arrow-down115
arrow-up1415arrow-down1imageMandatory self-reflection hoursmedia.piefed.worlds@piefed.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square49linkfedilink
minus-squareZMonster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 days agoIt’s a dash the length of M. The smaller one is called en dash.
minus-squarePatches@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days agoA dash that is twice as long as a regular dash. It’s an odd character that doesn’t exist on any keyboard but AI uses it everywhere. The only time you likely encountered it outside AI is in Microsoft Word. Word replaces 2 dashes (-) with an Em—Dash.
minus-squareNikls94@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoGerman Microsoft makes them automatically. If you write word - word it automatically lengthens the - to a — but if you write it like word-word it doesn’t—and LLMs don’t put spaces in between
minus-squareLes Orchard (at SDF)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoIt’s just alt-hyphen on Mac. I use it all the time
What is em dash
It’s a dash the length of M. The smaller one is called en dash.
—
A dash that is twice as long as a regular dash.
It’s an odd character that doesn’t exist on any keyboard but AI uses it everywhere.
The only time you likely encountered it outside AI is in Microsoft Word. Word replaces 2 dashes (-) with an Em—Dash.
Notion does that too
German Microsoft makes them automatically. If you write word - word it automatically lengthens the - to a — but if you write it like word-word it doesn’t—and LLMs don’t put spaces in between
It’s just alt-hyphen on Mac. I use it all the time
deleted by creator
Em—dash.