On Monday 22 December 2008 11:58:24 am David Mertens wrote:
> > What Dieter refers to is that TeX is interpreting a blank as the end of a
> > command. I.e., "\TeX and friends" will be parsed as
> > "<command>TeX</command>and
> > friends". If you want a blank after the command, you must either write
> > "\TeX\ and friends" or "\TeX{} and friends" (in ordinary LaTeX), and I
> > think
> > Dieter wants us to automatically insert "\ " at the end of each ERT (or
> > transform subsequent blanks to "\ " automatically). However, as I argued
> > earlier, I think such magic will fall back on us, since ERT is used in
> > many different ways (not mentioning all the backwards compatibility
> > issues involved).
>
> Jürgen and Steve -
>
> You are correct that I misunderstood.
I wasn't even commenting on anyone's LyX wishes. I was just agreeing with the
general principle laid out by Jürgen, that ERT should be completely literal.
Thanks
SteveT
Steve Litt
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