• lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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    22 hours ago

    It’s not realistic for all users to follow semantics

    Not realistic for users to write lists the normal way that doesn’t look wrong? I don’t know guys

    -first
    
    -second
    
    -third
    

    looks obviously bad whereas

    - first
    - second
    - third
    

    looks right. Then you see the rendered result in preview. You also had a button in the toolbar to create a list.

    I don’t think this is asking much.

    If you weren’t trying to write a list, though, then I don’t know what you were doing & I doubt a chat bot will either: could you link to an example of what you were trying to do? For all you know, I’m a chat bot not figuring out your intent. No technology is about to fix PEBKAC.

    I think the bottom line is if you write lists normally, then everything else including accessibility will turn out right without you needing to understand the intricacies.

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      22 hours ago

      I definitely wasn’t trying to write a list, it was a riddle or a conversation. What I was trying to do is this:

      Though, it seems speech dash is not a thing in English. So I understand the confusion.

      • Canadian_Cabinet @lemmy.ca
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        20 hours ago

        Yeah its not a thing in English. In Spanish it is as well and learning to read novels in English was a bit confusing at first. I believe the official name is en dash or em dash I forget which

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          Didn’t really notice until now, though it seems some English speaking people used these dashes in their books apparently but I don’t think I ever read one of them. It’s hilarious to see these cultural differences may cause problems like this. :)

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          20 hours ago

          No worries. I tried to look on my English novels first but couldn’t find anything like this. I was almost certain that I saw this in one of the Roald Dahls but nope. Well, learned the official name of it too, quotation dash. Thanks.

          By the way, Meta (Windows key) + . opens emoji list in KDE.