Need the em dash character — | Voters

Need the em dash character —

Logan Green

Could you add the em dash to the characters available for typing in a transcript? 
Looks like this: —
On a Mac it's Shift+Option+Hypen.
Right now I can only use a hypen, or en dash.

January 15, 2020

Support Team

Merged in a post:

Support more typographically-friendly characters (ellipsis etc)

Julian Harris

A bunch of characters can't be typed inside the editor currently.

The ellipsis is three dots (opt-; on Mac) …
En dash – and
Em dash —

…all three of these are not able to be typed in Descript. This is odd and counter to pretty much every other editor works.

August 10, 2024

Daniel Martinez Stahl

This request is more than four years old. I'm new to the system and am surprised this hasn't been corrected. The em dash is a critical element in transcripts. I use it a lot when the speaker changes direction mid sentence, which happens a lot in live recordings.

Please add this in. I agree with Scott below that pasting it in every time is a bit of a hassle.

Scott Snibbe

I really need this too! Now I am cutting and pasting, but it is very awkward. +1