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grumbel 40 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphe...

In Linux/Xorg with a compose/multi-key one can do:

<Multi_key> <minus> <minus> <period> : "–" U2013 # EN DASH

<Multi_key> <minus> <minus> <minus> : "—" U2014 # EM DASH

More in /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose

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