# How to note a "dash" sign in Markdown?

**URL:** <https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/how-to-note-a-dash-sign-in-markdown/15045>\
**Category:** Markdown & LaTeX\
**Created:** [October 23, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/how-to-note-a-dash-sign-in-markdown/15045 "2011-10-23T20:18:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![tyuk](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b3f665/32.png) [@tyuk](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/tyuk)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/how-to-note-a-dash-sign-in-markdown/15045/1 "2011-10-23T20:18:57Z")

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Hi,

I’m not sure this is possible. Please let me know.

Example of use (in a dialog):

- Where are you going John?
- I’m going to Lancaster.

With the actual syntax the two dashes become bullet points, right.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/amberv/32/13021_2.png) [@AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AmberV)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/how-to-note-a-dash-sign-in-markdown/15045/2 "2011-10-23T20:54:50Z")

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Double-hyphens create en-dashes, and triple-hyphens create em-dashes, which is probably what you want for grammatical usage like this. You wouldn’t typically want to use a hyphen for denoting speech like this, typographically speaking any way.

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**Author:** ![tyuk](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b3f665/32.png) [@tyuk](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/tyuk)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/how-to-note-a-dash-sign-in-markdown/15045/3 "2011-10-23T22:06:00Z")

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Yes that’s exactly what I was looking for 😃  
Thank you very much AmberV.