Dear Joel, On 2017-12-15, Joel Kulesza wrote:
> I know there has been extensive discussion on changes to en/em-dash > handling. Regrettably, I haven't followed it closely. However, I ran > across an issue related to these recently that made me wonder whether it > has been addressed. Unfortunately, I'm currently traveling and cannot test > with 2.3.0, so my question may be moot. > *Summary: when pasting en/em-dashes into a table, they do not get converted > and will render as double/triple hyphens. You are actually not pasting en/em-dashes but rows of hyphens. While in LyX <=2.1, these were passed to the backends as-is, resulting in rows of hyphens in HTML documents but converted to em and en dashes by TeX-based backends. This behaviour comes handy in your case but is not good when, e.g., pasting a command line: `ls --help` becomes `ls —help` which will not give the expected result. > Steps to reproduce (in v2.2.3): > 1. Insert a 2x2 table to a new LyX document. > 2. Paste the block below my signature into the upper-left cell to have > all 4 cells populated. As far as I see, the issue you have with 2.2 is due to the above feature change. ... > *Any thoughts you can provide on whether this paste-conversion behavior has > been fixed are appreciated.* LyX 2.3 enables you to selecte to output the dashes as -- and --- (instead of literal characters) on LaTeX export but keeps the feature to treat rows of hyphens as rows of hyphens on input. See http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10543 for the many details. > Example block: > 1 -- > --- 2 You may consider using literate dash characters in your excel. Depending on the OS, this can be as simple as pressing AltGr + - or Shift + AltGr + -: Example: 1 – — 2 For single cells or running text, you could also consider pasting with Edit>Paste Special>Paste from LaTeX. As last ressort, a run of Search&Replace will do the desired conversion. Günter
