Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Sure, because you do the same in all other text editors and Word-like > applications. I was often asked in the past why there are two or three > subsequent dashes and it is hard to explain that they become one in the > output but not within LyX. > At least our documentation files should therefore contain the correct > characters. People can copy/paste them to their documents. > Another point is that "---" is a command and the only case where you enter > LaTeX commands in LyX outside of math and TeX mode (ERT).
But inserting -- and --- is much easier and less error-prone. And it's easier to recognize. Also, AFAIU, word users usually do not insert dashes via the Symbols dialog, but they rely on Word's "automatic" dash recognition, which incredibly often goes wrong. My experience is that wrong dashes is the most recurrent typographic error in Word and OOo documents (next to wrong closing single quotation marks). Jürgen
