On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 12:00:02PM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote:
> On 2017-01-24, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:14:39PM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote:
>
> >> Below is an incomplete patch (see FIXME).
> >> Could someone with more C++ knowledge complete and test, please?
>
> > This would be a step forward. However, I am more radical and would like
> > that the automatic transformation of -- and --- to \textendash and
> > \textemdash be removed. If I enter -- I want to get --, otherwise
> > strange things and obscure bugs can happen. For example:
> > 1) start a new document and input "--" and you get \textendash
> > 2) now enter another "-" and you get \textemdash
> > 3) now enter another "-" and everything gets replaced by "-"
>
> This could be changed to gets replaced by "----"
I don't know how easily, didn't have a look at the sources.
> > This means that I am not able to enter "---------", for example.
>
> At least not easily. (It works if you insert with spaces and delete them
> later.)
Not at all. You get -{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}-{}- which is worse.
You have to use ERT to introduce four hyphens? How's that?
> OTOH, with the old behaviour strange things happen on export:
>
> 1) start a new document and insert this---foo
> 2) copy from another source bar—bar (with Unicode emdash literal)
>
> In LyX <2.2, both emdashes look completely identical, but one allows
> line breaks after the dash and the other not!
But packages that expect to see two hyphens instead of \textendash
are not broken...
--
Enrico
