Board Thread:The Time Lord Academy/@comment-6433721-20130309061324/@comment-26975268-20130309193317

CzechOut wrote: So I'm in favour of this:
 * en-dashes forbidden
 * a single em-dash only is allowed
 * no spaces

So this would be correct:
 * Lambert told her superiors in no uncertain terms—and almost in defiance of the then-conventional wisdom about her financial acumen—that the TARDIS prop could be amortised over the course of several months to bring the show in at budget.

Sounds fine to me, except that: how are we, and especially new editors, supposed to know how to produce such m-dash. I highly doubt that we can create some sort of shortcut within the wiki itself, so how are editors expected to know how to do this? And, if the only way of doing so is by clicking around five buttons, it doesn't sound very appealing. I predict that people, even if they know how to do it, will simply get lazy.