OK, that definitely worked. Under "Settings-Fonts-Roman" I specified "Latin
Modern Roman" and the problem disappeared---which is to say that the
correct em dash (produced by typing three hyphens) appeared. (My solution,
the em dash in the 8th position, looks a little darker than the one in the
7th
A comment.
Running Lyx on MX-Linux 14.4, to write a user manual about
the said 14.4, we have had the reverse problem with ems.
In examples of command line instructions we needed multiple
dashes to be separate, only to find that they became ems in the
pdf copy.
The fix is simple, use Ctrl+Alt+
On 19/04/2015 5:50 a.m., Richard Opheim wrote:
In LyX 2.1.3 (on Windows 8.1), I found producing an em dash in my ms
to be difficult , and was not able to find any mention of it on the
users' list.
I produced an em dash in two ways: one, by typing three hyphens, and
two, by selecting "insert-spe
Hello all together,
after a test I have made with my LyX (version 2.1.0 on Windows 7) it is
so, that all three em dashes are shown in a PDF file generated with
pdflatex. The em dash, which is generated by three times press of the
hyphen and the em dash, that can be generated under Insert -> sp
I do not know about multiple versions but I can say that typing in 3 dashes
will produce an em-dash and 2 dashes will produce an en-dash. I would be so
bold as to say that if this works other than expected it would be a bug. It
is also possible that multiple versions of the same character will be
c
In LyX 2.1.3 (on Windows 8.1), I found producing an em dash in my ms to be
difficult , and was not able to find any mention of it on the users' list.
I produced an em dash in two ways: one, by typing three hyphens, and two,
by selecting "insert-special character-symbols-[category] general
punctuati
