Today, I noticed that when I copy/paste a horizontal line that is made with three asterisks (***), they are automatically converted to three dashes (—). I haven’t noticed this before; is it a new feature? Can I turn it off? Do dashes have advantages over asterisks?
What I’m trying to do
Return to the expected behavior of being able to copy/paste three asterisks and not have them replaced with three dashes.
Things I have tried
I’ve tried looking for an explanation in the release notes, searching the OB forum, searching Google.
I figured out how to solve my problem: go to Settings > Editor > Advanced > Convert Pasted HTML to Markdown. Uncheck it. It also solved the related problem I was having with my Wikilinks being replaced with Markdown links.
Do dashes have advantages over asterisks?
They actually have a disadvantage in my opinion.
Using 3 dashes just below any text displays the the text as header, but using 3 * does not.
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Where were you copying from? Another note, or something external like a webpage?
The same note. It was a bit of text with a (3 asterisk) horizontal line below it. Copy/paste and the asterisks were replaced with dashes. I tried copying from source, thinking that it would be copied/pasted as ‘plain text’, but no, it still pasted as dashes.