On 19/04/2015 5:50 a.m., Richard Opheim wrote:
In LyX 2.1.3 (on Windows 8.1), I found producing an em dash in my ms
to be difficult , and was not able to find any mention of it on the
users' list.
I produced an em dash in two ways: one, by typing three hyphens, and
two, by selecting "insert-special character-symbols-[category] general
punctuation-and then choosing the symbol in the seventh space (em
dash. Actually, both symbols 7 and 8 [counting from the left] appear
to be identical em dashes.) However, the em dash in the 7th space, as
well as the em dash that was supposed to be displayed by typing three
hyphens, didn't display in Document-view pdf latex (though they did
display in HTML and DVI). Instead, I found that the adjacent em dash
in the 8th space from the left did display in pdf-latex.
There seem to be two "versions" each of the hyphen, en dash, and em
dash. Presumably, one is for pdf-latex and the other is for other formats?
Richard Opheim
I found some years ago that whether an em or en dash was visible in
Adobe Reader, which was the pdf viewer I used at that time, depended on
the font. In the default font it wasn't visible unless the zoom level
was set awkwardly high, but when the font was set to e.g. Latin Modern
Roman it was visible at normal zoom levels.
Andrew
