[oXygen-user] Easy insertion of en/em-dash

[David Sewell]

Personally, I would not want a default autocorrect setting like this in oXygen because I usually want literal "--" and "---" if I type them (because I am usually in the XML editor and of course "--" is used in comments, etc.). But if it were added to the Autocorrect options and turned off by default, it wouldn't be a problem.

(OS X has built-in keyboard shortcuts for en-dash (Alt-hyphen) and em-dash (Shift-Alt-hyphen) so I just use those.)

David S.

On Oct 1, 2014, at 12:12 PM, Jirka Kosek <> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> good text content should properly use en-dash and em-dash characters.
> Easy way to type them would be similar to how auto-correction work in
> some editors:
> 
> Typed characters => output
> 
> -      => -
> --     => – (en-dash)
> ---    => — (em-dash)
> ----   => - (cycle back to hyphen and so on)
> 
> Has already someone implemented this as a pluging? Or would it be
> possible to provide this feature directly in oXygen, probably as a part
> of existing auto-corrections?
> 
> If answer is no, I will do it myself, but I thought that I would ask
> first :-)
> 
> TIA,
> 
> 				Jirka
> 
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