Kudos for perfectly aligning those hyphens.

Pxtl · on Oct 13, 2023

The trick is that HN turns into monospace when you indent.

So this is not monospaced,

    but this text that is indented with 4 spaces is monospaced
    so  I    can  easily  align    words.

wolverine876 · on Oct 13, 2023

  Two spaces is all you need

gwern · on Oct 14, 2023

But they should have been Unicode MINUS SIGNs '−'!

Anyway, if you like the idea of using way too much Unicode, I've been working on an esoteric document format proposal, 'Utext', for using exclusively Unicode in text files for complicated typography. Seems like Unicode is so enormous these days that you can do quite a lot: https://gwern.net/utext