Update documentation about em/en dashes and bitmap fonts.

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Guenter Milde 2017-08-29 21:52:31 +02:00 committed by Günter Milde
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be safely dissolved, as it will be automatically inserted at export time be safely dissolved, as it will be automatically inserted at export time
if needed, as usual. if needed, as usual.
* LyX now outputs en- and em-dashes as -- and --- ligatures when exporting to * The new setting
latex using TeX fonts, as done in version 2.1 and earlier. In version 2.2 "Document->Settings->Fonts->Output em- and en-dash as ligatures" forces
they were instead output as the macros \textendash and \textemdash, causing output of en- and em-dashes as -- and --- when exporting to LaTeX.
changed output with old documents and bugs. The 2.2 behavior can be restored It is is "true" by default but "false" when opening documents edited
by don't allowing using dash ligatures in Document->Settings->Fonts. with LyX 2.2.
See chapter 3.9.1.1 "Dashes and line breaks" of the User Guide and
"Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.3.x" below.
* The following UI translations were dropped, because the lack of translation * The following UI translations were dropped, because the lack of translation
maintenance: Russian, Danish, Greek, Serbian, Galician, Catalan, Romanian, maintenance: Russian, Danish, Greek, Serbian, Galician, Catalan, Romanian,
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the external_templates file, you will have to move the modifications to the external_templates file, you will have to move the modifications to
the respective *.xtemplate file manually. the respective *.xtemplate file manually.
* If you used literal em- and en-dashes in pre-2.2 documents,
you must manually unselect
"Document->Settings->Fonts->Output em- and en-dash as ligatures"
to ensure unchanged behaviour.
* ZWSP characters (u200b) following literal em- and en-dashes are deleted by
lyx2lyx when converting to 2.3 format. If you used them as optional line
breaks after dashes, convert them to space insets before opening your
document with LyX 2.3 or the optional line breaks will be lost!
* If using TeX fonts and en- and em-dashes are output as font ligatures, * If using TeX fonts and en- and em-dashes are output as font ligatures,
when exporting documents containing en- and em-dashes to the format of when exporting documents containing en- and em-dashes to the format of
LyX 2.0 or earlier, the following line has to be manually added to the LyX 2.0 or earlier, the following line has to be manually added to the

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