Is there a way to make an unordered list start with anything other than bullets? Can it be maybe a dash?

Answer 1

You can use list-style-image in the CSS to replace the bullets with a custom image. https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_list.asp

Answer 2

You could also use list-style-type...

Theotically it allows any string value (besides a bunch of keywords), but unfortunally this seems not widely supported (my galaxy note 4 with android -- sligtly outdated but not so much, fallback to default bullet)...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/list-style-type