Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> Because it is an easy way to get it? > > But an unintuitive way, otherwise I wouldn't have been asked.
it depends from which background do the newbie comes. if its the tex one then --- is pretty intuitive. if they are office descendands then i suspect they have never heard about the typographical differences between en/em dashes and are used to put simple "-" everywhere. so for them lerning those "-/--/---" is the same as learning (not) doing multiple spaces or linebreaks (also being "unintuitive" in lyx). imho not too much to ask them to learn. using symbols dialog is uneasy to use and easy to overlook, moreover when we are speaking about newbies. pavel
