20 years ago I made my own keyboard layout with em/en dashes (and other missing characters) and I take it for granted. That it's now easier to type them on a cellphone than on a desktop PC is embarrassing, frankly.
I can’t believe in Year Of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Three, Windows still requires Alt+ a memorized, arbitrary four digit numbers to get common symbols like em-dash.
I have been off in Mac-land for years now, but it is nice to hear that PowerToys still exists (and yes, faintly exasperating that it's still all but necessary).
Kids these days! --Double-dashes were good enough on the Smith-Corona and the Electromatic, you whippersnapper, & they're good enough with Courier or even that dadblasted Times New Frikkin' Roman!
And where's my carbon paper and canary second sheet & why doesn't it work in the laser printer?
Y'all need to get with the graphic design and typesetting crowd and get Macs. Option-dash. Option-shift-dash. None of this hold alt and remember the four digit number garbage. This is late May 2020, y'all!
And don't even get me started on currency symbols, straight and typographer quotes...
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C’mon, writers–smh!
I agree that something like this should be built-in and not require people to know about and install PowerToys.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/quick-accent
And where's my carbon paper and canary second sheet & why doesn't it work in the laser printer?
And don't even get me started on currency symbols, straight and typographer quotes...