On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Bill Foote <bi...@jovial.com> wrote: > > Also, I learned to type on a manual typewriter in the mid-70's when I > > was in 4th grade; that muscle memory ain't going away any time soon :-) > > > > I know I could hack the code myself, > > > I would be surprised. TeX simply ignores multiple spaces. If you want > to change this, you may need to look into hacking the TeX engine > itself (assuming you export to LaTeX). You could go the way of very > ugly hacks such as adding a protected space to each normal space, but > again this seems like a very bad idea. See [1] for some discussion of > this point. > > Actually, I think Bill meant he could hack the LyX code to get rid of the warning, not the TeX engine to allow it. I would agree with him: that warning is annoying to any user who (1) is old enough to have internalized the "2-spaces after period" rule and (2) uses LyX more than occasionally. A preference setting would work great, I think. Or alternatively, a rule that disable the warning after a fixed amount of repetitions(20, say). Cheers, Stefano -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
