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I was trying to post a story that includes a linux command-line with double-dash option.

For example:

/usr/bin/somecommand --option

It seems that the double dash is messing up the story display even if story format is Plain Text.

To re-produce, make a new story with this as the Intro Text:



What I see is "Some text last line" is displayed at the top of the story text!

Similar things happen if I change the story format to wiki-style or HTML and try to embed a double-dash in code tags... the double dash is messing something up.



Is it possible to show double-dashes in story Intro/Body? How?

Even better if you can show how to make the double-dashed part show up in monotype font.

Thanks!

I see that some people have viewed this but no replies.

It would be great if someone else could try to reproduce this "double-dash bug" and make sure it is not just something specific to my server.

Just make a new story and include the text I posted above.

Thanks very much!

Hello Dan,

Seems to work fine on demo.geeklog.net

::Ben

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I'm available to customise your themes or plugins for your Geeklog CMS

Thanks, good idea to try the demo site!

The demo site is running 1.6.0.

I am running 1.6.0sr2.

Could someone test this with the latest GL (or maybe the demo site will be updated soon)?

Thanks very much!

Dan,

It is working for me on a geeklog 1.6.0sr2

::Ben

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I'm available to customise your themes or plugins for your Geeklog CMS

I also have no problems with that. What other settings do you have? Bad word filtering, SpamX ?

I think I have a theme issue.

I switched back to professional and my double-dash story looks just fine.

Thanks for the feedback and the testing everyone!

Sounds more like a font issue.

Btw, as per your first post: For monospaced text, try the <tt>, <code>, or <kbd> HTML tags, depending on context.

bye, Dirk

Here's the story with the broken output (I have not had a chance to look at my theme yet):

http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/article.php/20091020135847311

My theme includes modifications to the story body, so there is a very good chance my customizations are the cause.



Thanks, I'll try...

Fixed. Problem caused by me commenting out some stuff in storytext.thtml. When I deleted the lines instead of just commenting them out, all is well.