Quarto is rendering "--" to "–"

[ivansaul]

Helllo. "How can I make Quarto render '--' as two hyphens instead of '–'? I am seeing Quarto using the character '–' instead of '--' in some of my documents and I would like to know how I can fix this problem. Is there any configuration or function I can use to force Quarto to use two hyphens instead of the '–' character? Any help would be greatly appreciated."

example.qmd
Hello --World--

after render to html

example.html
Hello–World–

[dragonstyle]

The -- is being converted to an en dash. You can disable this 'smart' behavior like so:

---
title: Hello World
from: markdown-smart
---

Hello--World--

Or you can just escape the dashes like so:

---
title: Hello World
---

Hello\-\-World--

HTH!

[ivansaul]

@dragonstyle Thanks for the help. I appreciate it a lot.

[mcanouil]

FYI, behaviour related to an issue with shortcodes: #3744

[cscheid]

Yes, but we want to fix the shortcode issue for all formats (by unescaping the parameters).

[mcanouil]

I know, it's only for reference for any users looking for this. 😉