Forum - View topicDisallowed punctuation?
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doc-watson42
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I've tried to type em and en dashes in both the forum and the encyclopedia, but without result--they just disappear. Are they locked out of ANN specifically, or phpBB generally? (Though I have the same problem in vBulletin.) They are easy to include in macOS, and I find them very useful, as well as preferable to their typewriter substitutes (hyphen and double-hyphen).
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Tempest
 I Run this place.ANN Publisher  Posts: 10477 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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We do use them in our articles, so it's definitely not an ANN-wide thing.
Here's one cut & paste: — Seems to be working in phpBB. Have you tried using the html code: — in the encyclopedia? The html code won't work on phpBB because html has to be explicitly whitelisted to work, and — isn't in the list. |
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Tempest
I Run this place. ANN Publisher Posts: 10477 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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Edit: I added — to the list of allowed html and found something interesting, it gets stripped down and the ampersand and semicolon are removed, resulting in:
<mdash> |
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doc-watson42
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No, I've just tried to use the Macintosh keyboard versions: Option-hyphen (en dash), and Option-underscore (shift-hyphen; em dash). Copying and pasting works, though: – — |
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