Meanwhile, I never even knew what an em-dash was until I started reading about AI. I always just used hyphens in the same way. Now I use em-dashes and everybody thinks I’m AI – oh the ironing.
The thing with em dashes is that most keyboards I’m aware of don’t have dedicated em dash keys, and most text input on the web won’t parse a double hyphen into an em dash the way word processors do. Ironically, Lemmy’s markdown parser does exactly that. – —. I suspect it’s based on or connected with Pandoc’s markdown parser, since how you enter collapsable spoiler blocks is identical to Pandoc’s div block notation
Meanwhile, I never even knew what an em-dash was until I started reading about AI. I always just used hyphens in the same way. Now I use em-dashes and everybody thinks I’m AI – oh the ironing.
The thing with em dashes is that most keyboards I’m aware of don’t have dedicated em dash keys, and most text input on the web won’t parse a double hyphen into an em dash the way word processors do. Ironically, Lemmy’s markdown parser does exactly that. – —. I suspect it’s based on or connected with Pandoc’s markdown parser, since how you enter collapsable spoiler blocks is identical to Pandoc’s div block notation
::: spoiler some text Hello world :::some text
hello world