Title: Font-rendering question. Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Font-rendering question. * [Blaze Miskulin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blazemiskulin/) * (@blazemiskulin) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/font-rendering-question/) * I’ve been using WP for a while now, and I like it, but there’s one little thing that annoys me, and I’m not sure if it’s something in WP, in the CSS, or somewhere else. I use a double dash quite often in my sentences. It represents an aside or a tangent. * However, when typing a double dash–as I frequently do–something in the program translates it to an “em-dash”–a single dash of (supposedly) longer length. However, it’s *not* longer. It’s virtually impossible to differentiate from an “en-dash”( a hyphen). I want the double-dash, not the em-dash. * Any clues? * Version: WP 1.5 (though this was a problem in older versions, too) character encoding: UTF-8 font-family: ‘Arial’, Verdana, sans-serif; Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [xmarcos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xmarcos/) * (@xmarcos) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/font-rendering-question/#post-166446) * If you have te Markdown and/or textile active, turn them off they always change your code. * [sleep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sleep/) * (@sleep) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/font-rendering-question/#post-166448) * Arial doesn’t seem to have an en or em dash. (at least on my mac version) only the hyphen. * _ It’s virtually impossible to differentiate from an “en-dash” (a hyphen)._ * hyphen – (concatenation…pro-create) * en dash – (series…2000–2005) * em dash — (a harder break than a comma but less than a period) * three types, all different. * Thread Starter [Blaze Miskulin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blazemiskulin/) * (@blazemiskulin) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/font-rendering-question/#post-166450) * Sleep: I’m aware of the difference. However, a keyboard doesn’t have an en-dash or em-dash, it only has a hyphen, and others may not know what they are. * The double-dash is an accepted alternative for the em-dash, and in virtually all common usage, the hyphen is used in place of the en-dash. And the hyphens in my posts actually look like an en-dash (longer than a hyphen). * My dilema is that something is changing my hyphens into something else. I want it to stop. 🙁 * xmarcos: I don’t have either of those plug-ins activated. I don’t have any plug- ins active, actually. I also tried turning off the emoticons (just on a whim) and that didn’t affect it, either. * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/font-rendering-question/#post-166451) * You could add a class to your CSS to make the double-hyphen the length you prefer– but then you’d have to “span-class” every time you wanted to use it. Unless there’s a way to include it in the “html, body”…. I’ll have to play with it a bit, never thought about it…. * Thread Starter [Blaze Miskulin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blazemiskulin/) * (@blazemiskulin) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/font-rendering-question/#post-166452) * Fixed! * I posted this question in another forum, and a friend happened to be really bored this morning and decided to dig through the code. 🙂 * The culprit is the “functions-formatting.php” file: * the em-dash: `$curl = str_replace('--', '& # 8211 ;', $curl);` * the elipsis (another punctuation that I tend to abuse) `$curl = str_replace('...','&# 8230 ;', $curl);` * I deleted those two lines, and it’s the way I want it now. * [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/) * (@kafkaesqui) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/font-rendering-question/#post-166455) * You could also turn off the formatting by commenting out the wptexturize ‘add_filter’ lines in wp-includes/default-filters.php, or through a plugin… * [http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/06/27/plugin-wpuntexturize/](http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/06/27/plugin-wpuntexturize/) ( Doesn’t hit en and em dashes, but they could be added to it.) * [http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/TextControl](http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/TextControl) * [sleep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sleep/) * (@sleep) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/font-rendering-question/#post-166456) * delete or comment out line 14 of functions-formatting.php * `$curl = str_replace('--', '–', $curl);` * might do the trick… * Took too long to post :^) Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Font-rendering question.’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 7 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [sleep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sleep/) * Last activity: [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/font-rendering-question/#post-166456) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics