# Dialogue text formatting ("-" instead of "•")

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/dialogue-text-formatting-instead-of/119658>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [June 6, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dialogue-text-formatting-instead-of/119658 "2019-06-06T12:04:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 2:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dialogue-text-formatting-instead-of/119658/6 "2019-06-06T14:28:57Z")

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You’re talking about overriding the formatting engine and breaking how part of markdown is rendered out, so while it doesn’t seem like a big change, it’s not something that can be easily altered, it’s certainly more than a line or two of code.

If you don’t want to change Discourse, then your best bet would be to adopt a different syntax; one which doesn’t collide with Markdown. Have you looked into alternatives? Scriptwriting for example doesn’t prepend lines of dialog with dashes.

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