On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 09:18:50PM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2017-02-27, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 04:55:43PM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote: > >> On 2017-02-26, Guillaume Munch wrote: > >> > Le 25/02/2017 à 21:09, Enrico Forestieri a écrit : > > >> >> Then, a decision has to still be taken as regards the original problem > >> >> in this thread. I think that the patch Günther proposed on Jan. 25 is > >> >> the less controversial one. > > >> > I think you mean > >> > https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg198620.html > > >> However, this patch is obsolete. As Guillaume pointed out, there are use > >> cases for the dashes with and without line break opportunity. (See also > >> the attachments to https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10543) > > > A patch that does not exist cannot obsolete anything ;) > > But it can be obsolete. Obsoleted by new findings during testing and > discussion of the problem.
This is a sophism. > > At this point we have two simple alternatives. Either the above one or > > https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg198615.html > > Both have serious drawbacks. See #10543. TL;DR > > Then, I refuse to have a mess in the latex output only to obtain a simple > > en(em)-dash when LaTeX already uses -- and --- for those dashes. > > LaTeX supports — for the em-dash (with inputenc utf8), so why don't use > it? > > Using font ligatures as an input convention is seventies technology, > obsoleted by LaTeX2e 20 years ago. Another sophism. > LyX supports — for the em-dash since 2007. > I refuse a change where I need to put \textemdash in ERT to get rid of > the drawbacks of the font ligatures. > (The suggestion in msg198615 would convert all literal em-dashes into > "---" without any way to bypass this conversion. This breaks documents > that use direct Unicode char input.) Then let's apply https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg198620.html -- Enrico
