Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Bo Peng <ben.bob <at> ...> writes: > > > > > Pay attention whether it is an email transfer problem. Dot doubling > > > happens > > > to me when the sender uses thunderbird. > > > > This is unlikely the case since > > 1. I am using mutt and one of my friends will never use things like > > thunderbird (he is MS/OE only). > > 2. the files are sent via attachments > > 3. if thunderbird (or other mail clients) adds dots, it will add them > > after all dots, not only dots after \cite. > > I can confirm that if the *first* character in a *text* file attachment is > a dot, then it gets doubled when the mail sender client is thunderbird > (this happens at least with version 1.0.7 in debian testing). > > In a lyx file it may easily happen that the first character on a line is > a dot, so it *may* be an email transfer problem if the sender uses > thunderbird.
I verified that MS/OE behaves the same, i.e., if the first character on a line is a dot (no matter if in the email body or in a text attachment) it gets doubled when sending. Conversely, if the first two characters on a line are two dots they are collapsed to a single dot. So, it seems that thunderbird and OE are well paired ;-) I suggest that you use thunderbird to exchange lyx files with you OE friend or ask him to zip the file before emailing it. -- Enrico
