rgheck <rgh...@bobjweil.com> writes:
>> a) What to use in the tutorial, --- or em-dash?
>>
> ---, on the ground that em-dash as currently handled breaks lines
> wrong. One could change the handling of em-dash, but I see no
> generally acceptable way to do it, though see below.
+1
>> b) How to export the em-dash Unicode char to LaTeX?
>>
> As we do it is fine with me.
If something has to be changed to handling of emdash, it has to be done
in latex packages. This is out of the scope of LyX IMO.
>> c) Shall we pass --- directly to LaTeX even if it is not ERT also if this
>> breaks the WYSIWYM principle?
>>
> Yes, on the ground that it doesn't actually break that principle in
> any very significant way, though apparently we disagree about this.
I think we should continue to pass --- unchanged. I do not think we ever
had a bug report about that.
>> d) Do we want a em-dash ("Gedankenstrich") macro choosing the
>> typographically correct dash depending on the language?
>> At the LaTeX or LyX level?
In French, it is up to the editor to choose between --- and --.
JMarc
