Avoid em dash conversion in fmt_markdown

[wvictor14]

Is there a way to avoid em dash conversion in fmt_markdown?

tibble(x = '---') |> gt() |> fmt_markdown()

reason I want to use fmt_markdown is for newlines to be introduced via <br>

[olivroy]

You'd have to do a manual transformation of your input before.

# this does what you want.
dplyr::tibble(x = '\\-\\-\\-') |> gt() |>  fmt_markdown() 

Programatically, you can do

dplyr::tibble(x = '---') |> dplyr::mutate(x = gsub("-", "\\\\-", x))|>  gt() |>  fmt_markdown() 
# or with stringr
dplyr::tibble(x = '---') |> dplyr::mutate(x = stringr::str_replace_all(x, "-", "\\\\-"))|>  gt() |>  fmt_markdown() 

The problem is that --- is em-dash in markdown, so you need to make sure it looks like \- to avoid markdown interpretation.