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 position and shouldn't be considered a viable option for professional-level work.) And yes, I am using Adobe Reader to view the output. Thanks!
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 2:49 PM, aparsloe <[email protected]> wrote: > 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-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 >> > I found some years ago that whether an em or en dash was visible in Adobe > Reader, which was the pdf viewer I used at that time, depended on the font. > In the default font it wasn't visible unless the zoom level was set > awkwardly high, but when the font was set to e.g. Latin Modern Roman it was > visible at normal zoom levels. > > Andrew > -- 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
