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Lammy
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This looks like a job for—Emdash Man!
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dang
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Probably the most excited I've ever personally made PG was when he saw me make an em dash on my MBP and immediately wanted to know how.
dwaltrip
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I would also like to know how!
Lammy
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Compose Key followed by three dashes (two and a period for an en-dash)
https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/libX11/i18n/compose/e...
Also on Windows using WinCompose
http://wincompose.info/
junar
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Well, parent comment mentioned Mac, so the correct answer is Option, Shift, and - (hyphen). There are many other characters that Macs can type with the Option key.
dwaltrip
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Thanks! That is great.
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