I see what you mean. I probably didn't look closely enough at your examples. Rightly or wrongly however, I always have the en-dash with spaces fore and aft, and never use the em-dash. To be honest, until relatively recently I just used a hyphen anyway. I suppose that comes from having used a typewriter for years before WP became widely available. ________________________________ From: ady <[email protected]> Sent: 30 July 2024 4:21 PM To: Users <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Em-dash
> En- dash/em-dash > > All I need to do is type either double hyphen or triple hyphen to get the > appropriate dash. No need for colons etc. I have never changed any > autocorrect settings to achieve this. It is triggered by the second space, > whether immediately after the hyphen or after the next word. The detail is important: word1[space][one (or two) hyphen (minus)][space]word2[space] ...the (double) hyphen (minus) is converted into en-dash, whereas: word1[double hyphen (minus)]word2[space] ...the double hyphen (minus) is converted into em-dash. Note the difference of space characters. Using the colon characters, the replacement is performed precisely as desired, whether there are space characters adjacent to the words or not. HTH, Ady. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
