On Friday 2008-12-26 12:35, bb wrote: > > I think, that under all normal circumstances any punctuation mark MUST > be followed by a whitespace and I think it would be a good idea to let > that check
But there should be no whitespace in, e.g., "e.g." and abbreviations like T.L.A.P.D. (knowingly that they are often written as TLAPD anyway). No, I think the user needs to take care of it because no program can automatically decide whether it is T.L.A.P.D. or T. L. A. P. D. > and make lyx if one forgets it. Such an intelligent feature is > comparable to the deletion of more than one whitespaces between two words, > where lyx takes care and a correction. > > There are some cases where a point will not be followed by whitespace, > for instance the point operator in Java that separates objectnames from > methods and may be there are some more. So, anyway it should be possible to > eliminate whitespaces for special purposes. But the default should be a single > whitepace following any punctuation mark. So what prevents you from hitting the spacebar every once in a while? > I actually downloaded the source of lyx, but as I am not familiar with > the source I do not believe that I can find the point of entry for such > a change to experiment with. May be there is someone more skilled than I am > and > interested to give such a feature a try?
