Post #1699862
2026-04-08 10:46 UTC
Every time I see two hyphens (--) instead of an actual em dash character (—) it takes a second to convince myself I'm not looking at a command line flag.
(Which brings up a pet peeve of mine: blog posts about the terminal where some typography plugin has auto-replaced the double-hyphens in flags with em dashes)
Replies (2)
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@sotolf@polymaths.social 2026-04-08 11:12
@amin -- is markdown for the emdash I think
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@joel@polymaths.social 2026-04-08 15:39
@amin I use three dashes and Jekyll—more specifically Kramdown—turns it into an em dash, it's great