Just today, the feature to create a horizontal rule from three dashes stopped working, because Obsidian now automatically creates an em dash from the first two dashes: —-
I can create the horizontal rule from three underscores, but cannot do it from dashes.
This note and this note from a few years ago report the same issue. They both fixed by turning off “smart punctuation” in iOS. But I’m not in iOS; I’m in MacOS Sonoma 14.2.1. I’m in Obsidian 1.6.7.
I turned off “use smart quotes and dashes” in MacOS system settings >> Keyboard, but that didn’t fix it. It’s also not doing it in other apps; only Obsidian.
Doesn’t appear to be related to any plugins, 'cuz the behavior is the same in a sandbox vault with no plugins installed.
Is there a setting that’s changed? Am I missing something?
One thing you can try, it will only take a minute if you have a newer mac, is creating a test user account or switching to another user account if there’s one on the device already. Open Obsidian in that and make a test vault or open the Sandbox.
How’s the dash behavior in the second account?
If it’s fine, you’ll know it’s something in/about your main account causing the issue.
Belated thanks! This sorted out em-dashes for me and gives me hope that there might be a way to implement the text features of Apple Intelligence soon…?