Text Formatting ⇒ Typewriter font and em dash

[exploded_funk]

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 a nice addition.

The preamble of my LyX document is as follows.

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\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass memoir
\begin_preamble
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{everysel}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\ttdefault}
\EverySelectfont{%
\fontdimen2\font=0.7em% interword space
\fontdimen3\font=0.2em% interword stretch
\fontdimen4\font=0.1em% interword shrink
\fontdimen7\font=0.1em% extra space
\hyphenchar\font=`\-% to allow hyphenation
}

…

\language french
\language_package default
\inputencoding auto
\fontencoding global
\font_roman default
\font_sans default
\font_typewriter courier
\font_default_family ttdefault
\use_non_tex_fonts false
\font_sc false
\font_osf false
\font_sf_scale 100
\font_tt_scale 100

[kaiserkarl13]

You can try using kerning to overlay multiple hyphens, which will mimic this:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{times}
\newcommand*{\longndash}{-\kern-0.28em-\kern-0.28em-}
\newcommand*{\longmdash}{-\kern-0.20em-\kern-0.20em-\kern-0.20em-}
\begin{document}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
This is a test-like test.\\
This is a test---a very long test.\\
\begin{tt}
This is a test-like test.\\
This is a test--a long test.\\
This is a test\longndash a long test.\\
This is a test---a very long test.\\
This is a test\longmdash a very long test.\\
\end{tt}
\end{document}

You might want to put an \mbox around the dashes in the command definitions to make sure there are no stray line breaks.