Re: em-dash

Len Berman via lyx-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.editors.lyx.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Actually, I'm using linux.  LyX 2.4.0~RC3.

I am using 'Book w/extra fonts' as document class. I checked and with 
standard document class, it --- works.

More likely this a problem with the document class. I will repost.

Thanks.

On 12/1/25 17:55, Chris Menzel wrote:
>
>     Trying for an em-dash. I tried '---' in my text and inside a
>     texcode (Ctl-l) box.  No luck in either case, just 3 hyphens in
>     output.
>
> Huh, three dashes just turn into an em dash for me. I'm using a Mac, 
> but that seems like that should be a standard interface thing. (I 
> assume you're using Windows given the "Ctl-l" hotkey you mention.)
>
>     Is there a way to type this in the interface?
>
> I believe that in Windows 11 Win + Shift + <minus key> generates an 
> emdash (similar to Opt + Shift + <minus key> on the Mac). If that 
> doesn't work, you might try AutoHotKey or the like to set up a simple 
> text replacement.
>
> -chris

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