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Em dashes and emojis

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago

Including this very platform.

Lemmy will automatically render a double dash -- as an en dash, and a triple dash


as an em dash.

I usually just type alt + 0151, though, because I'm a nerd.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

test, ignore:

--

"--"

dash: --

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I just got a line across the page: ---

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You only get a horizontal line when you have the three dashes sit alone on a line


But when you use it inline---then it should render as an emdash or--an endash

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Doesn't do it for me on Thunder.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Nor on Jerboa. But lemmy-ui (the default web UI) does it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Some of this may depend on your client. If you do a triple dash by itself on its own line:


You get a horizontal rule in most clients, including the default web UI and all of the major browser based clients I've tried.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Why am I bold? why does markdown do my head in. Its really not that hard.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I'm not seeing it in Voyager, but I'm guessing you made a header:

Main header
===========

Level 2 header
--------------

The number of dashes or equality signs doesn't have to match, so I think that's what you did.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago
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