Re: Arcane question: Anyone know where the "question dash" in Unicode is on a Mac keyboard? Options?

On May 30, 9:23 am, Character <C...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
nickr...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On May 29, 4:21 pm, Armadillo <re...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

or maybe open em dash is en dash as two consecutive hyphens like it
is entered in Word.

I wonder what confusion is reflected and caused by such a statement. It
is best ignored.

But you did not.

Jukka

The "horizontal bar" also known as the "question dash" is different
from the underscore, no? If not, my question is answered, although it
begs others. If yes, then what is it and how do I get it on my Mac
keyboard? Not sure why this is so hard to grasp?

Because there is no such thing as a "question dash". Your use of
unknown terminology is what makes your intent hard to grasp. I tghink
you simply mis-typed "question" instead of "quotation".

For others' edification, an "open em dash" is an emdash with spaces
(usually a full word space) on either side.

The horizontal bar is, however, also known as a "quotation dash",
commonly used to introduce quoted text in some non-English languages
and by James Joyce.

IF the font you're using happens to have this character, and not many
do, In Unicode, the horizontal bar / quotation dash is U+2015 (decimal
8213). In HTML, it can be input only with the numeric form, &#x2015;
or &#8213;

How you enter Unicode directly on your Mac is a function of the
application. In InDesign you'd use the glyph chart; in MSWord, I think
you enter the four decimal digits followed immediately by an 'X' or
something weird like that.  However, very few fonts include anything
in that position. An em-dash (U+2014) is an imperfect, but useable,
substitute. It's normally a bit bolder and longer.

- Character

Thanksmuch. Apologies for being off topic and mis-stating quotation
dash as ...
.

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