User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Time Lord Academy/@comment-6433721-20130309061324/@comment-3030984-20130309200500

(Started before last two posts) CzechOut wrote: SOTO, I don't mean to sound harsh here. But you are always asking questions that are answered in the full text of the thread. Can you please reduce our workload by reading the entire thread before asking questions? The question was "how are editors supposed to know how to to produce an em-dash?"

While you made a comment on how such a em-dash can be produced, you lacked the Windows instructions. On Microsoft Windows, an em dash may be entered as Alt+0151, which is a bit of a hassle if you ask me.

However, I think SOTO's main point was that it isn't intuitive with the standard keyboard layout (certainly the case with Windows), and that it is difficult to expect users to comply with such a policy.

Even if users were fully aware of the difference between the types of dashes (after reading the entire thread, I'm still not 100% on how they should be used), and which ones TARDIS allows, laziness and the cumbersome keyboard commands would likely mean the policy is ignored.