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05 Dec 2023

Notes from paper review

Specific bits

General insighs

  • Reviews are awesome and quite useful!
  • Awesome and helpful for learning about gaps

Hyphens vs dashes (em-dash, en-dash)

Theory

Moved theory to rl/garden: Hyphens vs dashes vs en-dash em-dash minus etc - serhii.net1

(It seems I can’t do links to the garden/ portion of the website/obyde/obsidian/vault thing, so moved things below there and doing a hard link from here…)

Praxis

Updated my (former mirrorboard / pchr8board / …) dvorak xkb layout (220604-0136 Latest iteration of my custom dvorak-UA-RU xkb layout / 230209-0804 Small update to my keyboard layout / pchr8/dvorak_mirrorboard: A Dvorak version of the MirrorBoard) to get an en-dash and em-dash on level5 of the physical/querty keys N and M, so for example <S-Latch-M> gives me an em-dash/—. I may update the picture later.

I hereby promise to use them as much as possible everywhere to remember which ones they are.

(I always hated small dashes in front of two-letter+ entities because it feels wrong, and an en-dash for such cases removes some of the pressure I surprisingly feel when I have to do that, it kinda matches my intuition that a different symbol is needed for longer compound words for clarity reasons.)

This also reminds me that I have quite a few unused Level3 keys on the right side of the keyboard, maybe I can take a second look at it all.

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