On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 08:53:41PM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2017-08-31, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 11:06:25PM +0200, Guenter Milde wrote: > > >> +* Since version 2.2, -- and --- in the LyX source are output as -{}- and > >> + -{}-{}- to prevent conversion to en- and em-dashes by TeX. > >> + Occurences in pre-2.2 documents are converted to literal Unicode dashes. > >> + In some cases this leads to different line breaks, as: > >> + + there is an optional line break after hyphens (also -- and ---) but > >> not > >> + after literal dashes, and > >> + + hyphenation is suppressed in words following hyphens but allowed after > >> + literal dashes. > > > I think the above does not belong to the release notes for 2.3. It > > would have been appropriate for the 2.2 release notes. IMO, this has to > > go in the docs. > > Description of past behaviour is IMO not out of place in a section called > "!!Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.3.x".
It is out of place because this is not illustrating something introduced in the current release but in past releases. > >> + It is no longer possible to differentiate dashes with/without optional > >> + line break using --- and -- vs. literal dashes. Either convert one sort > >> to > >> + ERT or insert optional line break characters. > > > This is true since 2.2, so this does not belong to the release notes for > > 2.3 and is better explained in the docs. > > This also one of the caveats then upgrading from earlier versions (which are > not limited to upgrading from 2.2). See above. Release notes should be used to illustrate current changes, not changes occurred in past releases. -- Enrico