On 01/14/2010 03:24 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Le 14 janv. 10 à 01:54, Uwe Stöhr a écrit :
This is an interesting issue. I wasn't aware of that problem. So the
best is to leave it as it is. The UserGuide already explains the
different types of dashes and tells the user that there are two
different ways of inserting them (as "---" and as "—").
I have nevertheless still the opinion that the documentation files
should use the Unicode glyphs directly. The vast majority of the LyX
users I know are coming from the WYSIWYG world and expect to enter a
single character to get a glyph.
I think this is a case where we can just say : "do like that now, this
is the LyX philosophy"...
Yes, and because it is the right way to do it, if we do say so
ourselves. The way it is done now leads to bad spacing and related
problems. You see them all the time in Word-produced documents.
I propose to replace all the Unicode glyphs with proper LaTeX dashes and
to update the User's Guide to explain why "---" and the Unicode version
are NOT equivalent, even if they print the same character.
Richard
