Comment by uv-depression
5 months ago
That character is actually the en dash (properly used in ranges, e.g. 5–10). The em dash is [shift][option][-]. I would also include triple hyphen in that list; for those of us used to TeX a double hyphen (--) is an en dash and a triple (---) is an em dash.
Yup. I use an em dash all the time after I started using TeX. Probably makes my posts look like AI—but it’s worth it.
To get an em dash on an iPhone, long hold the hyphen—it’s the third (longest) option.
(Edit: typo. Using iPhone after all.)
You aren’t putting spaces before and after the dash - which lowers your AI probability score in my mind.
ChatGPT (at least for me) does not add spaces around the em dash unless you explicitly tell it to use British spelling and conventions.
> The em dash is [shift][option][-].
On the US layout, sure, but there are other layouts where they are switched (i.e. ⌥- is em-dash and ⇧⌥- is en-dash).