How to prevent Writeboard from showing two hyphens as an em dash?

Question

In Writeboard, if you enter -- (two normal dashes/hyphens), it gets displayed as — (one em-dash).

That's probably fine and cool in most cases, but gets annoying if you'd want to document e.g. Unix commands—like wget —auth-no-challenge—for copy-pasting them later. This breaks down with the "clever" em-dash conversion.

I found a clumsy workaround: write the two dashes like -<b></b>- or -</b>- in the page source. Is there any better way to avoid Writeboard converting the dashes? Using <pre> tags for verbatim formatting doesn't seem to help in this case.

Answer 1

Writeboard uses Textile as it's markup language, with limited HTML support. In Textile, inline code blocks can be created like this:

@code@

or, using HTML:

<code>Code</code> 

Both of which are equivalent when processed. It's analogous to Markdown's (used here for all StackExchange sites) `Code` style. The results of these is:

The actual code used to produce the above screenshot is:

Use the <code>--flag</code>, such as <code>wget --auth-no-challenge</code>

Textile should support @wget --auth-no-challenge@ or @--flag@