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[OccasionalReader]

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.

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Example of what I'm talking about above.

 

[chris_brown]

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?

 

[OccasionalReader]

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?

I'm looking for the minimum so I don't need to spend as much time making the scene breaks

 

[GyroscopicGraphite]

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.

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If that's not an option for whatever reason, try copy-pasting a long dash string from another tab you have open or something.

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Like so.

 

[GyroscopicGraphite]

To actually answer the question, just one will work fine.

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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.

 

[BeyondTheWallOfDream]

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.

 

[OccasionalReader]

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.

Thank you

 

[Gambio]

I personally use

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gets the point(heh) across very well.

 

[GyroscopicGraphite]

And I have completly forgotten the text editor includes a literal line break, just like how it makes italics and bold text. Whoops.

 

[gene.sis]

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.

 

[TheLowKing]

From the guide:

Use three hyphens ( - ) underscores ( _ ) or asterisks ( * ) by themselves with no spaces to create a horizontal separation as seen above.