So um exactly how many short dashes (-) do we need to create the long lines which I refer to as scene breaks? I'm probably using between ten and twenty right now, and it's starting to bother me that I don't know the exact amount. ---------------- Example of what I'm talking about above.
To be honest I don't think there's a set amount, I think it's up to the author's discretion, is it not?
It takes little more than a few extra seconds on any platform that's even remotely user-friendly to just spam the key until the line looks decently long. ---------------------- If that's not an option for whatever reason, try copy-pasting a long dash string from another tab you have open or something. ---------------------- Like so.
To actually answer the question, just one will work fine. - Anything to indicate to the reader some sort of break will do for all but the dullest of tools, assuming you did do a decent job of making it clear we are at a different place than a few lines ago.
Three dashes to make a screen wide break. Won’t show till you save as draft or publish though. Just tested, was definitely overdoing it with dashes before for the effect too.
And I have completly forgotten the text editor includes a literal line break, just like how it makes italics and bold text. Whoops.
Markdown translates 3 or more hyphens into an HTML horizontal line. If you use the RTE, the little menu should offer an option for horizontal lines as well. I think the RTE then converts that to "- - - - -" or sth like that. That seems to result in a horizontal line as well.
