Why does the HTML produced by GutenMark look funny in my browser?
Each browser tends to have its own individual quirks that limit the accuracy with which it can display HTML correctly. In other words, browsers (even very popular ones that I won’t name) don’t necessarily follow the HTML standards as closely as you might like. You can check some of your own browser’s capabilities by looking at the following table. Description What your browser displays long dash (em-dash) – short dash (en-dash) – soft hyphen should be invisible curly left double-quote ” curly right double-quote ” curly left single-quote ` curly right single-quote ‘ And, there’s an additional problem. HTML allows two separate ways of representing special symbols (like those in the table above), the numeric way and the symbolic way, and your browser’s quirks may be different in the numeric mode than in the symbolic mode! By default, GutenMark uses the numeric mode, because browsers tend to support it better. To use the symbolic mode instead, the ‘–force-symbolic’ command-line switch
