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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by WhyNotHugo on Friday March 28, 2025 @06:24AM (#43503609)
Just configure something like RightAlt to work as a compose key:

Compose--- produces —

Compose--. produces –

Lots of other characters like áăǎ°±€ are available through compose: https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2024/07/12/typing-non-english-...

> Absolutely proper and correct use of em dashes, en dashes, and hyphens is, to me, the most obvious tell of the LLM writer.

Or just someone who likes to use the right characters. There was a report a few months back about how writing from autistic kids keeps getting mislabelled as LLM simply because they use the correct specific terms.

Please stop associating being precise with being an LLM.

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