Guenter Milde wrote: > Not "perfect" (but maybe "satisfactory"): There may be issues with > documents containing literal Unicode dashes: these may now have different > line breaks.
If this is an issue then it was already an issue when format 481 was introduced (because we changed -- to U+2013 and --- to U+2014 in the conversion). Does the unicode standard really say something about linebreaking, or does this rather come from the fact that we currently map U+2013 to \textendash and U+2014 to \textemdash? If native support for both versions of dashes (-- vs. \textendash in LaTeX) is really needed then this should be done via a special char inset. > It is not about "horrible look", but about WYSIWYM: > > Treat hyphens similar to other TeX ligatures (e.g. << and >>) and special > characters: > > * show on screen what you will get in the output > > * escape in LaTeX export. > > If the LyX GUI shows "get the LyX version with `lyx --version`", I don't > want a suprise `lyx –version` in the output. This is the most important point IMO (and the very reason to introduce format 481 which fixed https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/3647). I have no strong opinion about the UI for entering en-dashes and em-dashes. If there are better methods than the current one then the UI should change. Georg
