# Strikethrough bugging around em dashes

**URL:** <https://community.bear.app/t/strikethrough-bugging-around-em-dashes/20002>\
**Category:** Lettera\
**Tags:** bug\
**Created:** [October 22, 2026, 2:32am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/strikethrough-bugging-around-em-dashes/20002 "2026-10-22T02:32:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![andrew](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/andrew/32/8559_2.png) [@andrew](https://community.bear.app/u/andrew)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 2:32am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/strikethrough-bugging-around-em-dashes/20002/1 "2026-10-22T02:32:30Z")

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If there’s an em dash right before the strikethrough tilde signs, the strikethrough doesn’t work. Deleting the em dash fixes it. documentation:

> **[New Recording - Descript](https://share.descript.com/view/zEAI9EcJjI2)**
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**Author:** ![rexikan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/rexikan/32/4117_2.png) [@rexikan](https://community.bear.app/u/rexikan)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 9:20am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/strikethrough-bugging-around-em-dashes/20002/2 "2026-10-22T09:20:51Z")

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Markdown is designed with some heuristics to figure out what is a style marker and what is text, and we try to follow that in extensions like strikethrough. So I don’t think it is a bug in this case. If you add a space after the end marker, it will work as expected.

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**Author:** ![andrew](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/andrew/32/8559_2.png) [@andrew](https://community.bear.app/u/andrew)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 11:50pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/strikethrough-bugging-around-em-dashes/20002/3 "2026-10-22T23:50:03Z")

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Sounds good. Thanks for letting me know!