On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 10:00 +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I happen to have LyX 1.3.3 installed on this machine and it does not > exhibit the behavior you describe. Actually, I think the current one > was already built-in since the first releases of LyX. As someone who > has been around since 1995, I do not remember anything different.
Okay you win :) If I'm not talking about past behaviour then I'm proposing a new "feature" :) And I know your vote is -1.. > Of course the above stands for the initial claim > > once upon a time, I could type extra whitespace between words and then > it would magically go away when I left that region of text. > > Now, extra space keypresses have no effect and I feel like I'm in a > straight-jacket. I can still insert a space *before* an existing > space, because I might be about to type a word between them, just not > after one. Anybody else get that feeling or prefer the old behaviour? > > [***** later... *****] > > But since I know that somewhere deep inside you do not believe me, I > downloaded lyx-0.7p4-d3 from October 1995 (the oldest we have), and > found inside it a document titled something like Dude, that's way more effort than anybody should have put in. But thanks ;) > Of course, Jose' being the lazy guy we have learned to love (and > hate), lyx2lyx is not able to read this file and yours truly had to > apply the patent-pending lyx2t::bh technique (aka "LyX to Text by > hand"). The document starts with an introduction and some installation You couldn't use the old version of LyX to export it to LaTeX? Or didn't you have an old enough system with xforms to compile against :) > instruction, and the only other section describe what is in the > author's mind the great idea behind LyX: > insert empty paragraphs. No matter how many spaces are typed between > words, only a single space between the words will appear. Blank spaces > at the beginning of a paragraph are completely taboo. Indentation of Actually I don't see the conflict between my suggestion and this part of the documentation. For once you move the cursor away, it will be cleaned up and you'll be left with a single space. > Now I hope you are convinced that LyX has never been supposed to work > as you claim. You may like it or not like it, but I think that in > Matthias Ettrich mind, it was _the_ feature that sets LyX apart from > other word processors, the one he was proud of. Sure that was the plan. I'm proposing a fairly minor UI tweak that doesn't affect the overall result. By the way, nobody has yet answered my concerns about the dangling space at the end of a paragraph. That has been allowed for as long as I can remember but it adds nothing (to my knowledge). Sure it's allowed so you can continue typing, but once you cursor away from the paragraph it's just redundant. Anyway I don't have much interest in this thread, it was a quick and fairly random suggestion and nobody has put in their support. Have fun, Darren
