Re: double spaces at the end of a sentence: readability

2001-05-03 Thread John Weiss
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:15:49AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > On a more serious note, visual feedback on end-of-sentence spacing > would be nice, but probably a lot of work. _And_ it would not be > correct french typography, so we would have to adapt it to language. This, I believe, i

Re: double spaces at the end of a sentence: readability

2001-05-02 Thread George De Bruin
Moving this comment over here (if it hasn't already been moved here) since it has been suggested this is a more appropriate location: On Tuesday 01 May 2001 14:44, Laura Jackson wrote: > Why couldn't LyX allow the user to type 2 spaces between sentences and 1 > space between words? It's frust

Re: double spaces at the end of a sentence: readability

2001-05-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Laura" == Laura Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Laura> Why not after, say, 3 or 5 spaces, display the little message: Laura> "You do realize that LyX will just ignore this extra white Laura> space when formatting your document, don't you?" With a dancing paperclip? :0) [sorry, I coul

Re: double spaces at the end of a sentence: readability

2001-05-01 Thread Syam Pannala
I see a fundamental confusion here. Lyx is not latex, nor is it an easy way to create latex text. It is a WYSIWYG word processor, which happens to use latex as its backend. Hence it _does_ care how many blanks you put. If you really wanted (or now want) wide spacing after a sentence, lyx-devel i

Re: double spaces at the end of a sentence: readability

2001-05-01 Thread mike.ressler
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Laura Jackson wrote: > Why couldn't LyX allow the user to type 2 spaces between sentences and 1 > space between words? It's frustrating to read over the text written in > LyX and have the sentences all squashed together. Because some of us hate seeing wasted space between se

double spaces at the end of a sentence: readability

2001-05-01 Thread Laura Jackson
Hi, Why couldn't LyX allow the user to type 2 spaces between sentences and 1 space between words? It's frustrating to read over the text written in LyX and have the sentences all squashed together. When I prepare a text file for LaTeX, I can type 2 (or more) spaces between sentences, and LaTeX