commit 71a35ea45b0f7fe3325236dbca6421c6e446128c
Author: Günter Milde <[email protected]>
Date: Sat Oct 21 22:31:12 2017 +0200
Warn of side-effects of the changed default behaviour regarding dash export.
---
lib/RELEASE-NOTES | 10 ++++++----
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES
index c605cb4..ff7e67e 100644
--- a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -212,10 +212,12 @@
the external_templates file, you will have to move the modifications to
the respective *.xtemplate file manually.
-* If you used literal em- and en-dashes in pre-2.2 documents,
- you must manually unselect
- "Document->Settings->Fonts->Output em- and en-dash as ligatures"
- to ensure unchanged behaviour.
+* By default, LyX 2.3 forces output of all en and em dashes as -- and ---
+ when exporting to LaTeX. This can lead to incorrect line breaks, wrong
+ characters in typewriter fonts, and problems with some LaTeX packages.
+ Unselect "Document->Settings->Fonts->Output em- and en-dash as ligatures"
+ to keep the LyX 2.2 behaviour and avoid these problems. See chapter 3.9.1.1
+ "Dashes and line breaks" of the User Guide for details.
* ZWSP characters (u200b) following literal em- and en-dashes are deleted by
lyx2lyx when converting to 2.3 format. If you used them as optional line
