On 2010-01-14, rgheck wrote:
> On 01/14/2010 03:24 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

>> I think this is a case where we can just say : "do like that now, this 
>> is the LyX philosophy"...

But there is no need to push this on the readers of the tutorial...

> Yes, and because it is the right way to do it, if we do say so 
> ourselves. 

... which I daubt.

> The way it is done now leads to bad spacing and related 
> problems. You see them all the time in Word-produced documents.

???

> I propose to replace all the Unicode glyphs with proper LaTeX dashes and 
> to update the User's Guide to explain why "---" and the Unicode version 
> are NOT equivalent, even if they print the same character.

I am against this. The Unicode version is more generic. Not all fonts
will replace --- by an em-dash.

Günter

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