Ok, that helps, thanks for the explanation.
Toby
P.S.: Just a thought: wouldn't it be usefully, if LyX would "finish"
every ERT that it is not yet "finished" by the user?
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re:Space after €
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jürgen Spitzmüller)
> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Date: 17.02.2007 10:06
>
> Tobias Krause wrote:
>
>> Great, thank!
>> Just to know: why do I need the trailing \?
>>
>
> TeX uses the blank to detect the end of a command, if no other command
> follows. That's why you can write
> 'Stra\ss e' to get 'Straße' ('Stra\sse' is impossible to parse, because there
> could be an \sse command as well).
>
> The trailing \ is just a "normal space" ('\ ') and indicates that the
> \geneuro
> command is finished and something new (here: a blank) follows.
>
> An alternative would be '\geneuro{} text', but this might break the kerning.
>
> Jürgen
