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 context dependant where HTML will use a different em-dash than a type 1 font pdf document.
~Ben On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Richard Opheim <[email protected]> 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-special character-symbols-[category] general > punctuation-and then choosing the symbol in the seventh space (em dash. > Actually, both symbols 7 and 8 [counting from the left] appear to be > identical em dashes.) However, the em dash in the 7th space, as well as the > em dash that was supposed to be displayed by typing three hyphens, didn't > display in Document-view pdf latex (though they did display in HTML and > DVI). Instead, I found that the adjacent em dash in the 8th space from the > left did display in pdf-latex. > There seem to be two "versions" each of the hyphen, en dash, and em dash. > Presumably, one is for pdf-latex and the other is for other formats? > > Richard Opheim > P.O. Box 2261 Arizona City, AZ 85123 > Tel: (1) 206-965-0564 > Skype name: richard.opheim > > Self-publishing Consultant > Editing---Layout---Musical Scores---Images---Kindle conversion > > website URL: > https://sites.google.com/site/opheimrichard/home > > self-publishing faq: > https:/ <https://sites.google.com/site/opheimrichard/home> > /sites.google.com/site/opheimrichard/publishing-faq > <https://sites.google.com/site/opheimrichard/home> > > publishing tasks: > https://sites.google.com/site/opheimrichard/publishing-faq/publishing-tasks > > marketing techniques: > https://sites.google.com/site/opheimrichard/publishing-faq/marketing > > Japanese translation & consulting: > https://sites.google.com/site/japanesetranslationconsulting/ > <https://url.sites.google.com/site/japanesetranslationconsulting/> > > blog: > http://foliocirculaire.blogspot.com > > *"It is* the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings *is* to > search out a matter." > Proverbs 25:2 >
