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I'm writing a thesis in Lyx and I'm using the Courier font. I have many dashes like this — in the text but in the PDF all I get is two small dashes like this -- .

I wanted to know if there is a way to insert a long dash — . I know that the mono spaced fonts are not designed for this but it would be ...

Thanks a lot for your answer. I think it works. The manual also refers to the command \StandardFootnotes.

I'm using the babel package for a French thesis. But this affects the style of footnotes. It gives me footnote markers that are superscript in the main text and not superscript, followed by a point and a space, in the footnote text. How can I change them to superscript markers with no point and no ...