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Quoth · 10-15-2023, 10:33 AM

Sure em & en both work on Amazon upload to KDP. Why do you think em dash doesn't (which is odd as Amazon is US)?

On Linux I disable Caps Lock Key, both shift is Caps lock, either cancels and then Compose mapped to Caps Lock Key. The Compose --- is em and Compose --. is en as standard. I do have a custom .Xcompose too, but only needed for Greek, prime, double prime like 6′ 2″ ( Using Compose 0 ' and Compose 0 ", where 0 is Zero.) and a few other unusual things as Alt Gr and Compose cover Spanish, French, German, Polish, Icelandic etc. I've no need to type Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Hindi, "modern" Korean or Cyrillic, but these can be done by swapping layouts or in .Xcompose. The advantage of .Xcompose is using a transliteration rather than official language layout.

Years ago I made my own layouts using MS Keyboard Editor thing on XP to match the AltGr of Linux. I've no idea why the regular MS UK or US layouts are so limited.

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Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,289 Karma: 105299897 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Sure em & en both work on Amazon upload to KDP. Why do you think em dash doesn't (which is odd as Amazon is US)? On Linux I disable Caps Lock Key, both shift is Caps lock, either cancels and then Compose mapped to Caps Lock Key. The Compose --- is em and Compose --. is en as standard. I do have a custom .Xcompose too, but only needed for Greek, prime, double prime like 6′ 2″ ( Using Compose 0 ' and Compose 0 ", where 0 is Zero.) and a few other unusual things as Alt Gr and Compose cover Spanish, French, German, Polish, Icelandic etc. I've no need to type Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Hindi, "modern" Korean or Cyrillic, but these can be done by swapping layouts or in .Xcompose. The advantage of .Xcompose is using a transliteration rather than official language layout. Years ago I made my own layouts using MS Keyboard Editor thing on XP to match the AltGr of Linux. I've no idea why the regular MS UK or US layouts are so limited. Last edited by Quoth; 10-15-2023 at 10:44 AM.