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Should we render double hyphen as an em dash?
Some places render "--" (double hyphen) as "—" (em dash).
Currently Codidact does not -- so these are left as double hyphens in both the edit preview and a rendered post (like that).
Would it be useful for Codidact to automatically render double hyphen as an em dash? Are there settings in which that would be a problem? When explaining command line flags such as --verbose I'd expect the double hyphens to be inside a code block. Would only rendering as an em dash outside of code blocks be sufficient to avoid problems?
I'm not sure if this is feasible yet. I just wanted to judge community interest in the idea first.
Workaround
In the meantime, if you want your post to contain an em dash, you can use "—" which renders correctly as "—". Putting it inside a code block allows displaying the raw text as — rather than —.
Note that it's "mdash" rather than "emdash" - &emdash; won't work.
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