The Em Dash
When composing a text message, the Em dash — like this one, is now gone! Double dashes don’t do it for me! Where’d It go?
iPhone 6, iOS 11.2.5, Just upgraded — no Em dash like thi
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Hi Robin,
-- -> — is a Text substitution, and is set in System Preferences > Keyboard > Text.
Once defined, it acts system-wide in any text handling application.
Since there are time when I want t enter several hyphens without having the pairs converted to em dashes, I've not defined that substitution for my own use. In stead, I use the keystroke combination—built into the Mac—to produce em dashes directly from the keyboard.
Shift-option-hyphen will produce — (an em dash).
Regards,
Barry
