Dear Lyx developers,
working on the Docutils LaTeX writer, I came across a problem with babel
redefining the tilde (~) as an active character in the languages
basque, galicien, and estonian. When going to LyX to see how it is solved
there, I had to realize that LyX does not solve it:
english no-break spaces
galician no-break spaces
estonian no-break spaces
basque no-break spaces
become
english no-break spaces
galicianño-break spaces
estonian no-break2paces
basqueño-break spaces
A possible solution is to add code to the babel entries of the respective
languages, similar to what we do in Spanish:
\deactivatetilden % restore ~ in Galician
\makeatletter
\addto\extrasestonian{\bbl@deactivate{~}}
\makeatother
\makeatletter
\addto\extrasbasque{\bbl@deactivate{~}}
\makeatother
Günter
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The
\begin_inset CommandInset href
LatexCommand href
name "babel"
target "http://www.ctan.org/packages/babel";
\end_inset
package introduces the concept of "shorthands": additional characters that
introduce a latex macro.
Most common is the active double quote (").
Problematic is the tilde character (~) which is regularely used for no-break
spaces but redefined by some language definition files:
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
english
\begin_inset space ~
\end_inset
no-break
\begin_inset space ~
\end_inset
spaces
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
\lang galician
galician
\begin_inset space ~
\end_inset
no-break
\begin_inset space ~
\end_inset
spaces
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\begin_layout Standard
\lang estonian
estonian
\begin_inset space ~
\end_inset
no-break
\begin_inset space ~
\end_inset
spaces
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
\lang basque
basque
\begin_inset space ~
\end_inset
no-break
\begin_inset space ~
\end_inset
spaces
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