>>>>> "Mike" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mike> Whilst cleaning up the docs, I noticed two things: 1) Trying to
Mike> underline the first letter of "LaTeX" underlines the entire
Mike> word. An example appears in Chapter 4 of Extended, in the first
Mike> paragraph. In the LyX file, things appear to be correct, but
Mike> the postscript preview shows that the whole word is
Mike> underlined. Presumably this is due to the fact that "LaTeX" gets
Mike> translated into a single LaTeX command, and thus one can't
Mike> underline a single letter of it. I'm not sure this is worth
Mike> trying to fix, but I thought I'd point it out.
This is a known problem, due to the way special names are handled in
LyX. I'll try to fix that, but probably for 1.1, since it is not a big
problem. I added an entry in BUGS.lyx about that.
Mike> 2) If one inserts a special character "linebreak", it inserts a
Mike> hard return (Ctrl-Ret) which does not justify the line, it
Mike> immediately breaks and starts the next line. There is a LaTeX
Mike> command "\linebreak" which first justifies the line before
Mike> breaking. This is useful in cases where you've got one word in
Mike> the middle of the paragraph that just won't break nicely (URL's
Mike> are an annoying example of this). There are other ways of
Mike> working around this, of course (e.g. \begin{sloppypar}), but it
Mike> would be nice to add this "not-quite-so-hard" linebreak to the
Mike> menu. (It would also be good to add "sloppypar" to the paragraph
Mike> format page!)
Yes, I think supporting sloppypar would be a better solution.
JMarc
