Dear James, On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 5:50 PM, James S. Cavenaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > You are clearly interested in fixing these issues. Please consider taking the user guide, enable Change Tracking, correct the issues that you can spot, and forward the corrected document to this list. Then our docs maintainer will consider including the changes in our repo.
Best regards, Liviu > 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. -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
