When I type two hyphens (U+2010) in the text of a shape, they immediately disappear and they are replaced by what seems to be an en dash (U+2013).
Obviously I don’t want that. If I wanted an en dash, I would type an en dash. How can I deactivate that behaviour? Thanks in advance for your help.
Does this help http://superuser.com/questions/555628/how-to-stop-mac-to-convert-typing-double-dash-to-emdash?
Funkydan2, thank you very much for your help.
Adding a rule to replace “–” by “–” in System Preferences > Keyboard > Text unfortunately doesn’t work (I use Mac OS 10.10.5). Quitting & reopening Omnigraffle didn’t help.
The other solution, Edit > Substitutions > Show Substitutions > deselecting Smart Dashes doesn’t work either because there is no such menu in Omnigraffle. Strangely enough, Apple only gives this same tip (https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18439?locale=en_GB).
But I think I have found a workaround: switching to the Unicode Hex keyboard and entering the hyphens with the Alt-2010 combination keys. This trick seems to work, it survived both printing and quitting & reopening the file.
Thank you for this answer. I do notice a slight shortcut - you only have to use the unicode to type the second hyphen.
