I can type a minus (-), an en dash (–) and an em dash (—) easily, I often need hyphens (‐) though. Is there an easy keyboard shortcut? If not how else should I go about inserting hyphens into my prose? Thanks.
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It's a one-or-the-other solution, but you could use the built in text-replacement on OS X to replace a minus with a hyphen.
On the left I typed a minus, on the right I inserted a hyphen from the OS X Character Viewer. In theory it should replace all instances of a minus typed with a hyphen. As I said though, it's a one or the other solution. Alternatively, if you use the minus more than an en dash, just replace the en dash with a hyphen.
You can use Ukelele to create a custom keyboard layout (starting with the default Mac layout) which has the hyphen character in it.
