On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Cyril Dupuis <cyril.h.dup...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2012/2/25 Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com>
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>> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Cyril Dupuis <cyril.h.dup...@gmail.com>
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>> > Yes, french Babel is loaded, and the french normal "..." has no
>> > non-breaking spaces as english form has.
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>> Then I'm not sure. French Babel seems to say that the ellipsis should
>> be the same as in English. If you simply need three subsequent dots,
>> why don't you insert directly '...' (three dots)? Perhaps someone else
>> can help.
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> Lyx automatically replace the 3 dots with ellipsis :/
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Are you sure? I cannot see this behaviour in either French or English
documents: When I insert three dots '...' I just get 3 dots, in LyX
and in LaTeX. To get the \ldots{}, I need to specifically insert the
ellipse special character.
> you can have a look here for the reference
> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Points_de_suspension (french)
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>> If you need non-breaking spaces in those places, simply insert
>> 'protected spaces' as I suggested earlier. Even manually it shouldn't
>> take very long. You can use 'Advanced find & replace' to replace with
>> 'ctrl+space', but you need to find a suitable 'find' pattern.
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> With find/replace, lyx makes no difference between space and non-breaking
> space, and this is my problem...
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Try _Advanced_ Find & Replace.
Liviu
