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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 ...
#2: Post edited
by
trichoplax
·
2023-07-03T06:38:48Z (over 1 year ago)
Clarification
- 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 "—".
- 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.*
#1: Initial revision
by
trichoplax
·
2023-07-03T06:36:09Z (over 1 year ago)
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 "—".