On 27/04/2013 5:13 p.m., Bryce Myers wrote:
Hey, So I am using Lyx, and if I type an en-dash, it does not always appear, when I save the document as a pdf. Sometimes they appear, but there is no rhyme or reason to when they do. Sometimes when I have two within a sentence, one will disappear. Sometimes when I copy and paste an instance where one does not appear into another document, it will reappear. It does it regardless of whether I do "Alt--" or "--" or find it through special characters. About the only pattern I have noticed is that they never all appear or disappear on the same line of text. Like I said, it does it when I view the document as a pdf, and I am using the mac version. Any input will be greatly appreciated, as one can only use so many commas and parentheses in a paper. Thanks Bryce
I've found with LyX and Windows that the display of en dashes in a pdf in Acroreader depends markedly on the font -- they are almost invisible in the default (computer modern?) fonts, but if I change the font to Latin Modern, the en dashes are crisp and clear in the pdf.
Andrew
