@ infinity, plus 1 » typography http://www.sids.in/blog if I'm not having fun, I'm not doing it right Fri, 07 May 2010 10:45:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Keyboard Shortcut for em dash in Gnome http://www.sids.in/blog/2008/09/keyboard-shortcut-for-em-dash-in-gnome/ http://www.sids.in/blog/2008/09/keyboard-shortcut-for-em-dash-in-gnome/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:31:59 +0000 sids http://www.sids.in/?p=40 I finally figured out the keyboard shortcut for em dash (and en dash) in Gnome. I don’t have to type the lame — any more, I can be a real man and type the right thing — :D . If you don’t know what an em dash is, you better read about it on Wikipedia.

Se here is what you do (this worked on my Ubuntu Hardy Heron Linux system):

Go to: System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layouts > Layout Options > Compose key position

and check ‘Right Alt is Compose’.

Et voila!

Now whenever you need to type an em dash, just hold the Right Alt and type three hyphens.

— = Right Alt + —

Similarly you can get an en dash by holding Right Alt and typing two hyphens and then a period (you can leave the RIght Alt before typing the period).

– = Right Alt + –.

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