“–” (Weird Robot Emoticon)

I’m on a Mac right now, and I know how to achieve apostrophes instead of foot marks here. Option-[ (left bracket) for an “open up the quote” mark; option-shift-left bracket for a “close the quote” mark. Do the same things with the right bracket to get apostrophes/single quotes. There’s supposed to be a similar way on Windows, with the alt button (which is all that the option button really is, basically,) but I tried that yesterday writing out yesterday’s post but couldn’t find it. Having to go to the option and the shift and very carefully the right bracket button instead of the left one, to do apostrophes, instead of just having my finger fly to the “ ' ” button without even thinking, does take a fair bigger bit of work, but I’m getting-ish used to it. It’s kind of weird and tricky though how both double-quotations are the left side and both single-quotations are the right side, instead of just having the left for open-quotes and the right for close-quotes, the shift for doubling and sans-shift for singling, but, like I said, I’m getting-ish used to it.

And it’s so easy to get em dashes here, it’s just option-shift-hyphen button. Check it out—it works like this—isn’t that so easy? And option-hyphen button without the shift can produce dashes as long as you want; it just strings them together ––––––––– wheeeeeee as long as you want them to go, all technically separate glyphs just jutting up together, compare this — with this –– by highlighting them.

Word processors tend just to automatically fix that for you, auto double-en-dash into an em-dash, auto inch marks into quotation marks. But Blogger doesn’t do that. I also know my way around in Wordpress but now that I think of it I’m actually not that familiar with their word processing, and I can’t think off the top of my head if they do that either...

It’s weird, though. I’m command-f’ing the “ ' ” character and the “ " ” character, in the body of this post, and it’s showing up results for both “ " ” and “ “ ” or “ ” ,” for both “ ' ” and “ ’ ” or “ ‘ .” (And if you think that was confusing to read, it was nothing compared with how confusing that was to type.) I have this post open as a preview in another tab, and that tab’s name is “Disney Villain Death: Preview "“–” (Weird Robot Emoticon)".” With the “"”s instead of the quotation marks. With the “"”s instead of the quotation marks. AS IF NOBODY WOULD NOTICE.

Being a designer will ruin your life, man.

And now I just ruined your life a bit, too. You're welcome (hehehe.)