Elipses

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Am Mittwoch, dem 15.03.2023 um 14:29 -0400 schrieb Richard Kimberly
Heck:
> I think I was on the 'don't do this side' back when we had that 
> discussion. 

Me, too. And I still am. I wish we had an option to opt-out to the
previous behavior where it was more clearly visible which kind of dash
you have.

> But since we do do it, I was thinking about other cases 
> where it might be worthwhile.
> 
> Actually, I was getting ready to do a presentation to our graduate 
> students about LyX ("LaTeX Without Tears") and was thinking about
> what quirks I should point out. The dash thing was one, and elipses,
> and then I thought, "Why this difference?" The history of course I
> remember.

The next thing people will ask for then, is this stupid word habit of
(sometimes) auto-transfering a hyphen to an endash if it is surrounded
by space.

> LibreOffice seems to leverage the auto-correct framework for this 
> purpose, which also makes things configurable. I agree with JMarc
> that if we did anything like this, we should do it generally, and not
> just special-case stuff.

I remember the reason for the dash thing was that representation in
work area and output differed due to TeX ligatures, and some people
were irritated by that.

So if we want to be consistent on this line, we have to handle ff, fff,
fl and fi, not ellipses.

-- 
Jürgen