Using dashes and colons in story titles?

[Deadman]

This is might be more of a preemptive attempt to know what I can and can’t do when creating story titles.

I have an upcoming story that has a dash in the title. But I know the archive has had some issues lately with summaries missing apostrophes and periods from time to time.

So would this be a problem if I use a dash in a story title, will it cause any issues? What about a colon instead of a dash?
 

[BronxWench]

  On 3/5/2025 at 10:08 PM, Deadman said:

This is might be more of a preemptive attempt to know what I can and can’t do when creating story titles.

I have an upcoming story that has a dash in the title. But I know the archive has had some issues lately with summaries missing apostrophes and periods from time to time.

So would this be a problem if I use a dash in a story title, will it cause any issues? What about a colon instead of a dash?
 

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I’m fairly sure all punctuation is glitching in titles and summaries. I haven’t found a workaround yet myself.

[Deadman]

  On 3/6/2025 at 3:14 AM, BronxWench said:

I’m fairly sure all punctuation is glitching in titles and summaries. I haven’t found a workaround yet myself.

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So it’s probably a good idea to avoid putting any punctuation like a dash in my story’s title?

[BronxWench]

  On 3/6/2025 at 10:56 PM, Deadman said:

So it’s probably a good idea to avoid putting any punctuation like a dash in my story’s title?

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At the moment, if you can avoid it, leave out the dash. It’s absolutely frustrating, I know, but it’s something in the code itself, and not a setting I can tweak with my very limited access.

[Deadman]

  On 3/6/2025 at 11:01 PM, BronxWench said:

At the moment, if you can avoid it, leave out the dash. It’s absolutely frustrating, I know, but it’s something in the code itself, and not a setting I can tweak with my very limited access.

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No worries, that’s partly why I asked ahead of time. I can tweak the title and still make it work. My first instinct is just add a “The” where the dash would be. Not exactly the same but close enough.