Em dashes are real punctuation marks!

  • Resolved aaron843

    (@aaron843)


    2 years, 6 months ago

    I see that Yoast SEO interprets em dashes (—) as letters and not punctuation.

    For example, if I write my key phrase, and my key phrase. It will find “my key phrase” regardless of the comma or period.

    However, if I write my key phrase—using em dashes for a parenthetical—then it will not detect the phrase. Em dashes are proper punctuation, and they are not supposed to have spaces around them — this is wrong — for example. Because em dashes function as a space.

    Can you fix Yoast SEO to recognize an em dash same as other punctuation, such as a period or comma?

    If you want to read more about em dashes, instead of asking me, please check out the CMOS: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/HyphensEnDashesEmDashes/faq0002.html

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  • Jeroen Rotty

    (@jeroenrotty)

    2 years, 6 months ago

    Hi @aaron843,

    Thank you for your elaborate ticket here.

    I have created an internal issue for our LINGO team to investigate. Thank you so much for reaching out about this.

    Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    2 years, 6 months ago

    We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new issue.

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