On 2010-11-05, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 11/04/2010 11:08 PM, Vasily Letov wrote:
>> Hello, people!
>> In Babel there are many language-specific shortcuts. For example, we
>> have "---, "--~, "--* and another. The package extdash (ncc-tools
>> collection) provides extra useful shortcuts, too. Unfortunatelly, LYX
>> converts " into \char`\"{},
> Or to \textquotedbl if the encoding is T1.
>> My question is how to configure LYX to use such sortcuts directly
>> without ERT?
Bind the " key to an lfun (or command sequence) inserting " as ERT?
> I'm not sure why we output '"' as something other than '"', but I expect
> there is a good reason
I expect the very reason is because it is an active character in some
cases. The LyX philosophy is to hide such things which will become
unpleasant surprises for the LaTeX-agnostic (even at the expense of
the TeXperts).
Günter
