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Text symbols

Quarkdown features automatic text replacement for commonly used UTF-8 symbols.

Text is automatically replaced wherever inline content is accepted (for example, paragraphs, blockquotes, and boxes, but NOT code blocks/spans, math, URLs, etc.).

SyntaxRenderedConditions
--— (em-dash)
-– (en-dash)Preceded by a word character and a whitespace, followed by a whitespace and a word character.
...…Either at the beginning or end of a word, not in between.
->→
<-←
=>⇒
<==⇐
>=≥
<=≤
!=≠
+-±
'’Not preceded by a word character, followed by a word character.
'’Not preceded by a whitespace.
"”Not preceded by a word character, followed by a word character.
"”Not preceded by a whitespace, not followed by a word character.
(C)©
(R)®
(TM)™

Example 1

"Quarkdown"--a typesetting system--supports automatic text replacements.

“Quarkdown”—a typesetting system—supports automatic text replacements.

Escaping

Escaping a sequence with a backslash \ prevents the text from being replaced:

Example 2

\->

->