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Friday Fun Thread for December 8, 2023

Be advised: this thread is not for serious in-depth discussion of weighty topics (we have a link for that), this thread is not for anything Culture War related. This thread is for Fun. You got jokes? Share 'em. You got silly questions? Ask 'em.

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If only I had an em dash key on my keyboard - then I might use it!

In HTML, and by extension in Markdown, "& m d a s h ;" (without the extra spaces—the code element doesn't work properly on this website) → "—". XHTML also allows you to define your own custom references to special characters (or even to sequences of characters) at the top of the file.

Outside of HTML, in Windows you can copy-and-paste special characters out of the built-in but somewhat subpar Character Map application, or out of a more complete piece of software like BabelMap. (I don't know what analogous options Linux and MacOS have.)

@Tyre_Inflator

I don't know what analogous options Linux and MacOS have.

At least with a standard MacOS keyboard setup, "option" key + "-" gives you en dash: –, and "shift"+"option"+"-" gives you em dash: —.

Yeah, how are we supposed to even use that character without memorizing 4 digit numpad codes that never seem to work for some reason?