How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)

Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by harrall on Thursday March 27, 2025 @06:11PM (#43498774)

On iPhone, type two hyphens to make an em dash:

-- into —

If OP wrote their post on an iPhone, they would have inadvertently appeared as an LLM by their own test.

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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by dan-robertson on Thursday March 27, 2025 @07:27PM (#43499443)

You can also hold the hyphen key to select an en dash.

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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by oneeyedpigeon on Thursday March 27, 2025 @06:22PM (#43498881)

Does that become an en dash if it's between two numbers?

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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by icy on Friday March 28, 2025 @03:20AM (#43502474)

It does indeed! One of my favourite iOS keyboard features.

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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by wruza on Thursday March 27, 2025 @09:38PM (#43500462)

I hate that this feature doesn't have a timeout, so when you want to type "--" you have to "- -" and then go back and delete the space. You can't just wait as with double-space vs space-wait-space. It can be turned off, but that turns off other locale-based punctuation like quotes.

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