Hi,
Many must have informally requested it: would it be possible and
desirable to have -- be interpreted as em-dash (—)? It's a very useful
symbol, particularly in the context of writing an encyclopaedia, but
is not readily available on the keyboard. Many editors already seem to
naturally use -- to try and imitate a proper em-dash.
What are the issues involved? Anyone know of other uses of -- that
should not be interpreted this way? Is there any argument that it
should become some other kind of dash instead?
Also, I realise there are bots that occasionally go around replacing
-- with other dashes, but that does seem a bit kludgy.
In the meantime, on en I have created {{--}} which surprisingly no one
had thought of creating.
Steve