I understand what you mean. However, space is something I can see.
Why is there the same behavior after tex command which is anyway surrounded by visible red box, if I hit space or if I don't hit space. It should not be the same. If space after tex command is not accepted by LyX then the space shall not be allowed to be hit at that place. User shall explicitly choose some other space like Control-Space or similar. Maybe that feature or un-feature shall be explained in the documentation. Until now I forget it often and I type texcommand rather for the purpose of variable expansions, and later to find out there was no space after it. Looks bad. In general, I am searching for a way to replace variables in the document. Maybe I don't know to use LyX in that manner. Is there any other manner to replace variables, like company names, names or addresses in a LyX document? If yes, I am interested to know how. Otherwise, I have to give LyX to multiple people to work for me and to explain to them to take care of the space after variable replacement. It makes no sense to teach someone the undocumented un-feature. LyX is most professional software I have, I am reporting bug only because I love it. Jean Louis On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 10:29:24PM +0100, Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: > Le 20/04/2016 20:45, GNU Support a écrit : > > Hello, > > > > maybe it should be a space if it is space. Space is a character just as > > any other character. Imagine if LyX would not show the characte "a" > > after tex command. The space is AFTER the tex command and not WITHIN the > > tex command. > > "space" is not a plain character in (La)TeX, 50 "a" give 50 times character > "a", > 50 spaces give one space. Same for newline. > And did I mention characters "\", "%", etc.? > > > > This space bug, actually breaks the philosophy os WYSIWYM. > > > > I make space after tex command if I need it. And I don't get that what I > > see and what I mean. > > Raw (La)TeX is *NOT* WYSIWYM. LyX's ambition and hard work of many > developers for more that 15 years is precisely to remove any occurrence of > TeX code, once named ERT, Evil Red Text (this speaks for iself) in the LyX > window. > > That said, I think that a mechnism similar to math macros allowing to define > user-defined plain commands would be welcome and allow to remove the need of > TeX code to avoid e.g. repeating several times the same textual expression > in a document.
