Microsoft news site prepared using Macs (MSNBC)

" All about the em-dash, the en-dash and the impenetrable hyphen"

This is a rather funny and frivolous letter about nothing much... BUT it intrigued me because I'm a Mac user since 1984. I have my first Mac, a 128K Mac that I bought in 1984. But that aside I learned something new and that is the 'dash'. A dash is different from a hyphen.

This is a hyphen - and this is a dash —

MSNBC uses the dash in all their articles and the only way, according to the letter that you can create a dash is with a Mac because the PC does not have a dash on its keyboard and Macs do. They do? I looked all over my keyboard and didn't find the dash so I played around and found it. Type shift-option-hyphen and you get the dash. Apparently this doesn't work on a PC and thus the author claims that MSNBC has to use Macs to create their website. Now that I know how to make a dash you'll be seeing more of it. —Lucky you.—