No but good-quality writing software add change the short dash automatically when the context is right. You can also keep a list of shortcut on your destop as memo or tap “Em Dash” on your search engine to find an example to copy paste.
I don’t know how to use them in English but I’m very carefull about using them right in my mother tongue.
Or she actually cares about ponctuation. And that’s a lost for you.
Well at least you’re safe from suspicion.
You just keep an Em Dash in a notepad to copy and paste all the time?
I keep Character Map™ at hand in Windows® just for random punctuation and stuff ©. gucharmap or something similar in Linux.
In word processors I’ve set up automatic formatting so that double minus (–) turns to en dash (–) and triple minus (—) turns to em dash (—).
No but good-quality writing software add change the short dash automatically when the context is right. You can also keep a list of shortcut on your destop as memo or tap “Em Dash” on your search engine to find an example to copy paste.
I don’t know how to use them in English but I’m very carefull about using them right in my mother tongue.
I generally disable a lot of auto-formatting when I do long writing sessions, so I guess I don’t relate.
Alt-0151 on windows
Did you have to google it before commenting? Be honest
No; I use it decently often. I also know that typing “2014” and pressing alt-x in Word will insert an emdash if I don’t have access to a number pad.