On 3/15/23 13:22, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Am Dienstag, dem 14.03.2023 um 23:42 -0400 schrieb Richard Kimberly
Heck:
Would it be worth adding 'special handling' for "..." the way we do
"---"? Are there other things in this ballpark we could handle?
I do not particularly like these kinds of "autocorrect". It is easy to
insert an ellipsis via shortcut, isn't it?
The dashes thing comes from LaTeX ligatures tradition.
I think I was on the 'don't do this side' back when we had that
discussion. But since we do do it, I was thinking about other cases
where it might be worthwhile.
Actually, I was getting ready to do a presentation to our graduate
students about LyX ("LaTeX Without Tears") and was thinking about what
quirks I should point out. The dash thing was one, and elipses, and then
I thought, "Why this difference?" The history of course I remember.
LibreOffice seems to leverage the auto-correct framework for this
purpose, which also makes things configurable. I agree with JMarc that
if we did anything like this, we should do it generally, and not just
special-case stuff.
So definitely not for 2.4.0, if ever.
Riki
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