On Tue, 1 May 2001, Laura Jackson wrote:
> Why couldn't LyX allow the user to type 2 spaces between sentences and 1
> space between words? It's frustrating to read over the text written in
> LyX and have the sentences all squashed together.
Because some of us hate seeing wasted space between sentences :-)
> Why not after, say, 3 or 5 spaces, display the little message: "You do
> realize that LyX will just ignore this extra white space when formatting
> your document, don't you?" That way, the user would be duly informed,
> but would also be free to use extra spaces for readability. Why must
> the user be forced to use exactly one space between sentences?
Two spaces are not typographically correct, and thus should not be done.
Period. However, to satisfy your squashed sentence complaint, LyX could
have a setting to automatically make a sentence ending period have a wide
space after it, as TeX does. I can't believe this would be excessively
hard to implement (famous last words). This would satisfy the purists who
insist on one space, but satisfy those like you who prefer not seeing
everything crammed together. You should suggest this to the lyx-devel
mailing list rather than lyx-docs; we don't write any of the code, we just
try to figure out what the developers inflicted on us.
Mike
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