Text Formatting ⇒ automatic formating - dashes

[hbs]

I want to write three short dashes ---, but Latex automaticaly change it to one long dash (em-dash). Any idea how to override that so I can get my three figure dashes instead?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi hbs,

Welcome to the board!

To prevent that TeX produces this ligature, you could insert braces, such as

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-{}-{}-

Or a bit shorter, enclose the middle on in braces:

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-{-}-

If you need it more than just one time, I recommend to define a macro for it.

Stefan