> On Jun 17, 2016, at 21:01, nathan.art...@softhome.net wrote:
>
> I encountered a problem in BibDesk v1.6.5, and I found a solution to the
> problem that I am sharing here in case anyone else encounters this problem.
>
> I am using Mac OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks. After I upgraded to BibDesk v1.6.5, I
> encountered a problem that I did not have in BibDesk v1.6.4: After
> upgrading, when I typed a space and a double hyphen (" --") into the
> Abstract field of the Editor window in BibDesk, the double hyphen was
> automatically replaced by an em dash (" "). This was a problem for me
> because I use LaTeX, and in LaTeX an em dash is represented by three
> hyphens, not two hyphens. So BibDesk would save the em dash as three
> hyphens, not two hyphens as I wanted! Therefore this autoreplace behavior
> was highly undesirable for me.
>
> The solution I found was to go to the Keyboard preference pane in System
> Preferences, select the Text pane, and uncheck "Use smart quotes and
> dashes". Of course, this change applies in all applications.
>
> It is very interesting that BibDesk v1.6.4 did not respect the system-wide
> "Use smart quotes and dashes" preference (at least in Mavericks) but BibDesk
> v1.6.5 does. The change is probably an improvement, but one needs to know
> how to turn it off if desired, as I described above.
Are you sure this was not the case in 1.6.4, not just that you happened to use
that on an older OS system? Because I can assure you that BibDesk was not
change in any way in handling dashes.
Christiaan
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