Two dashes turn into a big one

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  fluoblog · Member · Jan 10, 2008 at 11:46 am

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  How can I avoid wordpress from turning two dashes “-” into a big one “–” (even with tags around!)?
I'm writing a blog about linux, and it's really annoying when I have to write command line codes, the tag should avoid this kind of mistakes.


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  fluoblog · Member · Jan 10, 2008 at 11:49 am

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  woops sorry for the typo, read :

  “even with code tags around”

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  “the code tags should avoid this kind of mistakes”

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  mrlobotomy · Member · Jan 12, 2008 at 9:56 pm

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  As a (hopefully temporary) workaround, I’ve found that separating the dashes with a comment works. For example, “-<!-- Argh! WordPress is really annoying! -->-“. Also, why does WordPress convert   to an ordinary space? If I wanted an ordinary space, wouldn’t I have just typed that instead of spending all sorts of time converting spaces to  ?

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  matt · Staff · Jan 13, 2008 at 6:49 am

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  Are you using this method of posting source code?

  How do I post source code?

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  forums12345 · Member · Jan 13, 2008 at 6:55 am

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  Why is this Topic have bigger text then the other topic?

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  fluoblog · Member · Jan 13, 2008 at 10:05 am

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  thanks for all the answer,

  mrlobotomy:”If I wanted an ordinary space, wouldn’t I have just typed that instead of spending all sorts of time converting spaces to ?”
  I have the same question for code tags: why doesn’t it work properly

  matt: thanks, I’ll use this method from now on, but I think this code tag should “simply work” as a code tag…

  forum12345: I stupidly wrote < code > blabla < code > blala :)