How to prevent hyphen becoming a bullet list?

[tomtjes (Thomas Reintjes)]

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

Turns out, your best bet is probably to encourage your community to use a new standard. You could help them by creating a topic template in the category setting. Aside from the backslash a couple other options: Code blocks Use three backticks ``` in a single line before and after the dialogue. - Hello, how are you? - I’m pretty good, thanks. Use two dashes -- Hello, how are you? – Hello, how are you? -- I’m pretty good, thanks. – I’m pretty good, thanks.