On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 02:44:15PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> > I think that you misunderstood \enskip and \enspace. They both have a
> > length of 0.5em, but \enskip always inserts horizontal space, whereas
> > \enspace inserts horizontal space when in horizontal mode but vertical
> > space when in vertical mode. Try the attached latex snippet for a
> > surprise...
>
> I see. Then I was misleaded by the description in (several) LaTeX docs.
They were almost correct (see my other mail).
> > I think that for latex experts it would be confusing having a "Enspace"
> > menu that really inserts \enskip. What is the problem in simply renaming
> > "Enspace (0.5em)" to "Enskip (0.5em)" and getting rid of the "Enspace"
> > in the context menu?
>
> If we remove it from the context menu, we still have it in the dialog.
If you refer to "protect", it would suffice outputting \hspace*{0.5em}
instead of \enspace.
> Removing it completely would entail a file format change. Remember that we
> support enspace and friends as of LyX 1.4.0.
To be frank, I never noticed it. Do you mean that somewhere in 1.4 there's
an option to insert "Enspace" which really translates to \enskip?
In this case it would simply be a case of renaming something and I see
no need for a format change.
> Of course we can remove it from the GUI and keep it as a "hidden feature".
Dunno. I simply noticed the mismatch after the introduction of the
context menu and thanks to the "View Source" feature, otherwise I
would have missed it (until I had used an enspace in vertical mode,
of course ;-)
--
Enrico
