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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by metaphor on Thursday March 27, 2025 @06:40PM (#43499053)
I use --- to represent em dash in prose here, e.g. [1][2]. The behavior is just a residual of long time exposure to TeX.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41833665

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41774199

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