I see a fundamental confusion here. Lyx is not latex, nor is it an easy way
to create latex text. It is a WYSIWYG word processor, which happens to use
latex as its backend. Hence it _does_ care how many blanks you put.
If you really wanted (or now want) wide spacing after a sentence, lyx-devel
is the right list, as mike pointed out. I will wildly guess (as i am
completely ignorant of the code) and say it could be easier to a
"ignore-extra-whitespace" mode of input. There could be other issues.
syam
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 03:44:08PM -0400, Laura Jackson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> When I prepare a text file for LaTeX, I can type 2 (or more) spaces
> between sentences, and LaTeX doesn't care. It simply ignores that extra
> white space ( so long as I don't put an extra blank line, indicating the
> end of the paragraph).
>
> 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?
>
> thanks,
> Laura
