It’s a dash the length of M. The smaller one is called en dash.
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StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
What is em dash
ZMonster@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Patches@ttrpg.network 11 months ago
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.
lmorchard@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
It’s just alt-hyphen on Mac. I use it all the time
howrar@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Notion does that too
Nikls94@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Em—dash.
toeblast96@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
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