How many people do you know that use em dashes —- none.

tomjakubowski · 2025-12-27T07:17:59 1766819879

Em-dash has a trivial and mnemonic shortcut on Macs (Option-shift-hyphen), so I've been an em-dash user for as long as I've had one.

Anamon · 2025-12-27T10:35:28 1766831728

I committed typing en-dashes and ellipses on Windows to muscle memory. Alt+0150, Alt+0133. Bam!

I'm sure there are easier ways this can be set up. But, as I said, muscle memory.

Although I'll have to admit that wanting to use proper typography in the first place probably started when I was typesetting a print magazine on a Mac, where it's super easy to do it the proper way.

(I'm also never going to let AI slop discourage me from trying to use proper punctuation.)

piskov · 2025-12-24T21:45:00 1766612700

Do yourself a favour and use typography layout

https://ilyabirman.net/typography-layout/

throw-12-16 · 2025-12-25T06:31:43 1766644303

English isn't my first language, so I already use an alternate layout.

afiori · 2025-12-25T21:41:50 1766698910

I wrote in LaTeX for quite some time so, me.