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Almost all of us who hit the keyboard every day have to plead guilty to a silent crime: contributing to
Make the correct use of the hyphen invisible, also called long hyphen
.It's all a crime
orthographic
.This punctuation mark - used for delimitation and to start paragraphs in a text - has committed no greater sin than missing from the keyboard of our computers.
So little by little
we mistakenly replaced it with the hyphen (-).
or we've preferred to use parentheses, two characters just a click away from appearing on our screens. Most purists managed what they could: google it to copy and paste it, and it actually did in the icon quadrant after diving into the text editor and giving it a few clicks.
But here we want to remind you that the commands are there for that
help us to write correctly and not waste time
.A few simple keyboard shortcuts will ensure that no matter your operating system, you'll never use the script again if it's not suitable.And all thanks to a troubled tweeter who posted the following question on the social network:
We found that
a simple Wikipedia search
It would have already cleared him of doubts, but everything is more exciting when shared and that's how we all experience it. Besides, if you had clarified it yourself, we wouldn't be talking about it here. Overall, that the answers in the have been accumulated
tweet
and finally got these two methods clean:
So if we use
window
, we could press the button
Alt and enter the combination 0151 on the numeric keypad
with activated of course. In addition - and this applies universally to all operating systems - we have the option
set up an automatic link
on our keyboards and choose the formula that is most convenient for us.
At the ones you use
Mac
, get the line by pressing the button
possibility
and the
layer
while we press the minus sign on the numeric keyboard
.if you from
Linux
you already know the code entry
(Ctrl + Shift + U) so enter it and type 2014
appear on your screens.
When should it be used?
Now that we've learned how to type fast, perhaps it wouldn't hurt to give an overview of its uses by first making it clear that it can be used as a double or single character. For that we help each other
the standard set by the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE).
.Therefore, the RAE begins by listing that
serves to add clarifications or paragraphs
: "For him loyalty - a quality he valued above all else - was something sacred."
They clarify that although commas and parentheses can be used in these cases, the line "assumes greater isolation than those written between commas but less than the parentheses". In their second invocation, they explain this
used to insert dates or precision
, and to
play a dialogue
in writing before the intervention of each interlocutor.
In narrative texts it is also used to
introduce or frame the narrator's comments
The same happens when you want to frame the words of the copyist of a text quote: "It is essential," stressed the minister, "that the sanitary control systems are strengthened." This long dash is also used to
the enumerations and registers and their use in theatrical works
as a separator of the names of the characters and the associated text.
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