tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post6297924560097279805..comments2024-03-28T18:35:54.237+09:00Comments on BigHominid's Hairy Chasms: how to get out of double-hyphen hellKevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-41540741620927955402016-09-23T23:55:02.361+09:002016-09-23T23:55:02.361+09:00By the gods, how I miss the days when double dashe...By the gods, how I miss the days when double dashes actually were hyphens. Those glorious days of typewriters, correction tape (and fluid), and all the wonderful noise without all these extra, new-age, nonsensical steps needed to achieve hyphenation.<br /><br />Come to think about it, can't I just write on these blasted futuristic typewriters instead of having to type at all. Oh, well...one can dream.John from Daejeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08431973044799010218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-28601713419809612332016-09-20T11:48:52.409+09:002016-09-20T11:48:52.409+09:00Arg.Arg.Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-70259299732728576882016-09-20T11:41:16.169+09:002016-09-20T11:41:16.169+09:00The alternative, of course, is (wait for it) -- Te...The alternative, of course, is (wait for it) -- Tell me again what the problem is?TheBigHenryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04917973198063733316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-25559576428198455962016-09-20T10:11:22.945+09:002016-09-20T10:11:22.945+09:00You're right about MS Word shortcuts, of cours...You're right about MS Word shortcuts, of course, but my focus was on people who are, say, typing directly into a blog-comments window without recourse to MS Word.<br /><br />Besides, opening MS Word <i>just to be able to type special characters</i> is its own species of inconvenience, ja?Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-36136803439000291522016-09-20T06:28:23.744+09:002016-09-20T06:28:23.744+09:00You don't need alt codes to do a dash or long ...You don't need alt codes to do a dash or long dash in MS Word. <br /><br />Type word [space] hyphen [space] word. Then it gets lengthened to a dash. <br /><br />The long dash--that's used similarly to a comma--also does not need an alt code. Type word double hyphen word with no spaces and MS Word changes the double hyphen into a long dash. <br />(I'm typing this on my phone so it doesn't actually work in the example above.) <br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15673778203788557804noreply@blogger.com