And the propaganda works. People think d-day won ww2.
Edie
joined 10 months ago
just being generally chaotic in writing
ADHD thoughts within thoughts. Instead of using two layers of parentheses, substituting one for dashes.
As an infrequent user of it, same.
I got a bit angry yesterday, when someone said (in the thread this is a continuation of): no human being uses em-dash.
Saying only AI uses these is dehumanizing.
I guess that I am autistic plays a role in me finding it really bad.
There exists multiple ways of inserting unicode chars:
- Visual selectors, like the character map in Windows, or gucharmap (gnome) or kcharselect (kde), and probably more
- Decimal input
- On Windows if you have a numeric keypad, you can hold down the
Altkey and type in the unicode code point expressed in decimal... with some caveats, the decimal for em-dash should be 8212 (see the next line), but in windows alt codes it is 0151 - In html—and therefore potentially in markdown—it is possible to use
&#[NUM];to input it, like this:—, which gives you the —
- On Windows if you have a numeric keypad, you can hold down the
- Hexadecimal input
- can be enabled in windows and macos, see the wikipedia link for more info
- ctrl+shift+u works... in some places
- With an IME such as ibus or fcitx5 installed on linux, it should work through the system
- For me, it works (without an ime installed) in Firefox
- Wikipedia says it may work in other X11 applications
- Clicking the Compose key (Linux. May need to be enabled), and writing
will get you an em-dash
It's not too hard, you look at what is in demand in the market and begin building buildings that supply those things, then you die of old age waiting for them to complete.
If you give me some time and help I can make one.