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
