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