On 2016-06-13, Rich Shepard wrote:
> A KOMA-script Article class document contains three Greek characters in
> the text: \textrho, \texttau, and \textphi. The first two have correct
> spacing before and after the letter, but phi seems to lack that spacing in
> both places where it's included. See the attached .png; the phi is in the
> third row with the word 'is' squashed against its right side. I'll put a
> protected space there, but it might be a glitch that can be corrected in the
> next release.
No. This is a TeX feature: any TeX command "eats up" the following space
unless it is terminated by either \ or {}. I recommend
"... \textrho\texttau\textphi{} is ...".
(See the source panel (View>Source) for an example how LyX handles this when
converting Unicode characters to LaTeX macros.)
Günter
