# Malformed bullet causes emailed in topic to be incorrectly truncated

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**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [18 فبراير 2015، 7:39م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/malformed-bullet-causes-emailed-in-topic-to-be-incorrectly-truncated/25374 "2015-02-18T19:39:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\
**Post date:** [18 فبراير 2015، 7:39م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/malformed-bullet-causes-emailed-in-topic-to-be-incorrectly-truncated/25374/1 "2015-02-18T19:39:28Z")

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I know that a line with two dashes truncates everything below it.

```
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But it turns out that a line with a single dash immediately followed by text (no space) will also truncate everything below it. See screenshots.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/8/7862629046ef5c078923d2b4d95ed4a2a4db0f76.png) 

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/c/1c879c7ba7c4d640ca66db496f16d67ce46ab628.png)

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