Hartmut Haase wrote: > I believe it is somehow tedious that I have to write "z.\,B. Text" > with the nobreakspace sign between "." and "Text" just to get "z. B. > Text" set correctly. Why can't such abbreviations like "z. B.", "u. > �." etc. be stored as you do with words like LyX or LaTeX and then > converted by LyX to whatever is needed?
I think this is a little bit to much work (think of all possible abbreviations in all supported languages). Apart from this, it will never work correctly, because it depends hardly from your context. A few examples: "Das ist u.\,a.\ ein Text" (normal space after abbreviation) "Ein Text u.\,a. Bla..." (no normal space, the sentence ends here) "Das ist z.\,B. ein Text" (no normal/nobreak space! Ends with Capital letter) "Das auch z.\,B." (End-of-sentence-period-insert needed). How should LaTeX/ LyX know if you want to end your sentence or not? You can easily see the bad results of too much (pseudo-)cleverness if you try out a certain Wordprocessor, which drove me mad, because it has always converted "DNA" to "dann", which is not really the same. What we need are insets for '\,' and '\ ' similar to the nobreak space. This has been discussed and will probably be implemented after 1.2.0. J�rgen.
