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1. Jewels
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   When writing a publishing posts, would I be correct in assuming that writing a single hypen would produce a regular a hypen, "--" would produce an en dash and "---" would produce an em dash?

2. makemead
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   em dash = &#8212 ;
   en dash = &#8211 ;

   both without the space before the ;

3. nickobec
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Jewels
   You are correct (assuming you are running WP 1.5.2 or 2.0 and have not hacked your functions-formatting.php file)

   one - = -
   two - = —
   three - = –

   if you want to turn it off you need to comment out the following lines from functions-formatting.php
   <code>
$curl = str_replace('--', '& #8211;', $curl);
$curl = str_replace('---', '& #8212;', $curl);
$curl = str_replace(' -- ', ' & #8212; ', $curl);
</code>
   note no space between & and #

4. makemead
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Wow, I've been putting it in the hard way all this time? LOL

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