On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:11:39AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> This is easy in lyx-1.4... Correct spacing is added as needed, at
> least that happened for me with this sort of quoting style:
> «The word was <foo> » he said.
>
> It is also possible (but cumbersome) in lyx 1.3:
> Set quoting style to double qoutes. Write everything, but skip
> the single quotes. Change quoting style to single quotes.
> (That won't affect the existing double quotes in there.)
> Now type the single quotes. Then, change the style back if you need.
Thanks, Helge,
It does exactly as you say with the
«The word was <foo> » [I'll call F style]
quoting style, but not with the
``The word was `foo' '' [I'll call E style]
style.
Here's the lyx for my E style example:
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset
The word was
\begin_inset Quotes els
\end_inset
foo
\begin_inset Quotes ers
\end_inset
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset
he said.
And here's the dvi:
...foo<right double quote><small space><right single quote>
The lyx for the F style has "fld" in place of "eld" etc., and it does
indeed produce this dvi with LyX 1.3.6:
...foo<right single quote><small space><right double quote>
So, apparently it's a bug, at least in LyX 1.3.6, with the E style quotes
but not the F style; I didn't test all the other possibilities.
If you have time, could you verify whether the bug exists in LyX 1.4
for the E style quotes?
> The spacing should be correct too. If it isn't note that both
> lyx 1.3 and lyx 1.4 have "small spaces" in the insert menu.
I can't find a "small space" in my LyX 1.3.6 Insert->Special Character
menu. I have these choices:
Superscript
Subscript
Hfill
Hyphenation Point
Ligature Break
Protected Blank
Line Break
Ellipsis
End of Sentence
Ordinary Quote
Menu Separator
Protected Blank puts this in the lyx:
\SpecialChar ~
and produces exactly the same size space as an ordinary space, one em,
as my eyes measure it. An ERT \<space> does the same.
The <small space> that appears between the single and double quotes
in my examples looks like about one-third of an em.
Am I looking on the wrong menu for the "small spaces" you mention?
Thanks again for the help.
Jim
