ilford
Member
Hi,
I've been using the Acamas theme for the internal blog at my company (the blog is hosted on an internal server so I can't provide a link).
My issue: apparently Acamas automatically converts normal dashes to em dashes. This causes trouble because we post paths to files (ie C:/MyDocuments/2011 - Folder).
How can I disable Acamas from automatically using em dashes?
As a fan of typography this is painful but necessary.
from a quick google search i think it is default WP behavior and not Acamas/thematic specific
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=wordpress+automatically+uses+em+dashes
the first result explains things pretty well. the 3rd result points to an old WP support post- which led me to dig around in the wp-includes/formatting.php file. there appears to be a no_texturize_tags filter that might be useful.
ilford
Member
hi helga,
thank you for the pointer! I actually changed a line in wp-includes/formatting.php
$static_characters = array_merge(array('---', ' -- ', '--', '-', 'xn–', '...', '', '\'\'', ' (tm)'), $cockney);
to
$static_characters = array_merge(array('---', ' -- ', '--', 'xn–', '...', '', '\'\'', ' (tm)'), $cockney);
eeek... hacking at core. but i guess there was no other way? just remember that you will lose this the next time you update WP. don't forget to mark as resolved.
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