Emdash and Endash!

[tito-dutta]

How can I type Emdash and Endash when I have Ubuntu (11.10) installed in my computer?
Please give the answer here directly (like Press Ctrl Shift U and then press Alt something).

[Vaphell]

– U+2013 (as in ctrl+shift+u, 2013, space/enter)
— U+2014 (as in ctrl+shift+u, 2014, space/enter)

you should have char map program installed (gucharmap in terminal if you can't find it in gui) where you can look for any char you want.

[jwbrase]

Ctrl-shift-U and then the unicode codepoint of the character you want (e.g, 2014 for emdash) should work, unless something has changed between 10.04 and 11.10.

It doesn't work in every program, though.

[Cheesemill]

Method One

For emdash:
Hold CTRL+SHIFT+U and type 2014 then release CTRL+SHFT+U

For endash:
Hold CTRL+SHIFT+U and type 2013 then release CTRL+SHFT+U


Method Two

Go to System Settings > Keyboard > Layout Settings > Options > Compose key position and choose a key for your compose key. Then:

For emdash:
COMPOSE - - -

For endash:
COMPOSE - - .

[Vaphell]

Hold CTRL+SHIFT+U and type 2013 then release CTRL+SHFT+U

talk about unwieldy - 4 keys at once o.O? you can press ctrl+shift+u to get u and then comfortably type the code and confirm it with space/enter

[Cheesemill]

talk about unwieldy - 4 keys at once o.O? you can press ctrl+shift+u to get u and then comfortably type the code and confirm it with space/enter

I never use it myself, I was just quoting the official Ubuntu documentation.

[tito-dutta]

Excellent!
Tried both!
Ctrl shift u 2013/2014 will be easy to remember since current year is....