Since Lyx is concerned with automatically applying correct styles, I
want to point out an instance of very bad style in the UserGuide. I'm
still reading this and so there may likely be many more such examples,
but this will suffice to illustrate a very, very common error in spacing
that pervades English prose. It's as common as it is wrong. The SI rules
very clearly specify that there should be a space between a number and a
unit, but often this space is omitted, and that's just plain wrong.
Look up the SI rules if you don't believe me. By the way, they're
international, so this isn't some Americanism or whatever.
Unfortunately, scientists and other educated people are as ignorant of
these rules as anybody else, but the rules are actually quite sensible.
Anyway, in the UserGuide under Section 3.4.3, you have an example with a
table, and the example shows a diagram with Vertical Space (0.3cm) —
note that the quantity in parentheses definitely should be "0.3 cm" and
not "0.3cm".
Regards,
James S. Cavenaugh, Ph.D.
