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Originally Posted by Jellby
Or use the character map, or learn how to type them (probably alt+151 in your computer), or just write two hyphens and do a replace-all when you're finished. Or better yet, get a keyboard layout that lets you input them with a single key  |
But it kind of slows things down to do the alt+151 thing. And are you talking about a character map in Word or Sigil? (I couldn't find it in sigil.) And replace all is kind of dangerous, esp. if you consider there will probably be a lot of straight apostrophes and straight quotes to get rid of too and you can't really do replace all with those or you'd screw up the markup code stuff.
And shouldn't one of you smart guys just figure out how to make a single em-dash key? (You can do everything else!
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And you know, if you're doing a novel and editing it after breaking up into chapters all this replace stuff just gets really repetitive and time-consuming. (end of rant--lol)