GNHQ reporting design fault.

*bit

But of a faff though.

crossed out
For some strange reason reason it works if you put just one dash and then go back and do another dash before the first one, not after

Thank you Mamissimo for the dash-n-dash-and-m-dash explanation. who'd a thought that there were all these variations.
I thought a dash, was a dash!
The strikethrough used to work, but doesn't now, so as you said, over to the techies now.

It’s those pesky Ens and Ems!

www.punctuationmatters.com/hyphen-dash-n-dash-and-m-dash/

So I think it’s right that our problem is that IPad keyboards only have one multipurpose dash and it’s not taken care of in the back-end code at the moment.

Over to you Cary ?

_yes it does_

On mine it’s just the strike through that doesn’t .

h underline works on iPad ?

I also have no idea what ‘n’ and ‘m’ dashes are I only have one dash and that’s where the x is on the keyboard

Perhaps JackieB will come back and kindly explain the n and m dash conundrum?

That puzzled me to Auntieflo

This is one of those weird "works on yours but not on mine" things.
The same as dare I mention it, the tool bar, which I still can't use

I was wondering that. (as always)

Please, what is an m dash and and an n dash?

Oh yes, I did. Sorry. Mustn't gloat. ?

I might have said that before.

Works ok on my iPad.

hello

Cari - please can you tell us when the gnomes have fixed it? —thank you—!

It looks like the iPad uses m-dashes rather than the usual n-dashes.

Is there another hyphen on the iPad keyboard somewhere? I've never used any Apple devices and I don't know anyone who does so I can't check.

Some programs convert two n-dashes into an m-dash.

- this is not an n-dash

I don't have an m-dash nor does my keyboard automatically convert. I think they are rather outdated and becoming obsolete. Victorian books are littered with them!

Good morning Auntyflo and all x

Learned yesterday the Red Cross gives support for new mobility scooter users to gain confidence in using them, Fred can come out of early retirement

Hope everyone has a good day x

That was on my IPad.
Is it an Apple thing, or just a GN site problem?

I have only just found this, and the dash dash thing used to work, and now, as you say they, the dashes just join up, and no strikethrough. What’s going on?