Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-27 Thread Julio Rojas
8¬ | drawn upon them by White, payable to Clifford ;) then those of the > plaintiffs to the Is this the first reference to a smiley or what? Thx Alan! - Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Alan L Tyree wr

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-26 Thread Alan L Tyree
On 26/11/12 23:14, Julio Rojas wrote: Alternatively, you might consider sponsoring a LyX developer to find and implement a solution that is acceptable to all. (Maybe a "hidden" switch to turn off the message that is described in the manual - so that a user that has re

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-26 Thread Julio Rojas
> > Alternatively, you might consider sponsoring a LyX developer to find and > implement a solution that is acceptable to all. (Maybe a "hidden" switch to > turn off the message that is described in the manual - so that a user that > has read the manual also know how to avoid the message reappearin

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-26 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2012-11-24, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: >>> If the message itself is what bothers you, then try not to look at it. >>> With time you'll get used to ignoring it completely. To me (old time LaTeX/LyX user that has, of course, read the manual)

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:55:47 -0700, Zan said: > On Nov 24, 2012, at 5:56 PM, "Alan L Tyree" > wrote: > > > On 25/11/12 13:27, Charlie wrote: > >> On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:15:32 -0500 "David L. Johnson > >> d...@lehigh.edu" suggested this: > >> > >>> That is the way I treat is now, by simply ign

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-24 Thread Zan
as a basic user who habitually taps twice... Keep the function but kill the message. _nothing_ is a fine response for a habitual second push of the space bar. The message is unnecessary and graphically distracting after the second reminder. On Nov 24, 2012, at 5:56 PM, "Alan L Tyree" wrote: >

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-24 Thread Alan L Tyree
On 25/11/12 13:27, Charlie wrote: On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:15:32 -0500 "David L. Johnson d...@lehigh.edu" suggested this: That is the way I treat is now, by simply ignoring the message. Great, that's settled then. There is no effort required to ignore the message. However, as expla

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-24 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:15:32 -0500 "David L. Johnson d...@lehigh.edu" suggested this: >That is the way I treat is now, by simply ignoring the message. Great, that's settled then. There is no effort required to ignore the message. However, as explained previously, if there is no message,

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-24 Thread David L. Johnson
On 11/24/2012 12:10 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 24/11/2012 11:17, Trevor Jenkins a écrit : It is natural to anyone who uses a typewriter. Typists are deliberately taught to put two spaces after a full stop! Typist maybe, but in France I know no "dactylo" that would do that. Not being

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-24 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 24/11/2012 11:17, Trevor Jenkins a écrit : It is natural to anyone who uses a typewriter. Typists are deliberately taught to put two spaces after a full stop! Typist maybe, but in France I know no "dactylo" that would do that. Bollox! It disturbs the visual perception of the user to no goo

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-24 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > It is natural to anyone who uses a typewriter. Typists are deliberately > taught to put two spaces after a full stop! > As Rob pointed out (and please do check out the reference), this makes sense for a typewriter monospace font. It makes l

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-24 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Alan R. Bleier wrote: > > I agree completely with Trevor. > > > I completely disagree with Trevor. Hitting double space [to get a full > stop] is as unnatural and unhelpful as it gets. This may make some > s

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-21 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 21/11/12 18:53, Alex Vergara Gil a écrit : > >> A really useful message that doesn't appear is when you type carriage >> return without line break or paragraph break, it shoud appear as >> "detected line without line break" or somet

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 21/11/12 18:53, Alex Vergara Gil a écrit : A really useful message that doesn't appear is when you type carriage return without line break or paragraph break, it shoud appear as "detected line without line break" or something else. By line breaks I mean the "." or ":" or "...", etc. What is th

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-21 Thread André Pönitz
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:34:15PM -0500, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: > > >On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 03:08:27PM +, Alan R. Bleier sort of wrote: > >>On Apr 15, 2012, at 3:59 PM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > >>> if the key sequence has no meaning in LyX then I'd argue that there is > >>> absolutely no nee

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-21 Thread Alex Vergara Gil
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 03:08:27PM +, Alan R. Bleier sort of wrote: On Apr 15, 2012, at 3:59 PM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > if the key sequence has no meaning in LyX then I'd argue that there is > absolutely no need for a message at all. Just have it drop the second > space quietly and move on

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-21 Thread Alex Vergara Gil
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 03:08:27PM +, Alan R. Bleier sort of wrote: On Apr 15, 2012, at 3:59 PM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > if the key sequence has no meaning in LyX then I'd argue that there is > absolutely no need for a message at all. Just have it drop the second > space quietly and move on

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-21 Thread André Pönitz
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 03:08:27PM +, Alan R. Bleier sort of wrote: > On Apr 15, 2012, at 3:59 PM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > > if the key sequence has no meaning in LyX then I'd argue that there is > > absolutely no need for a message at all. Just have it drop the second > > space quietly and mov

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-21 Thread Rob Oakes
On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 16:36 +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Alan R. Bleier wrote: > > I agree completely with Trevor. > > > I completely disagree with Trevor. Hitting double space [to get a full > stop] is as unnatural and unhelpful as it gets. This may make some >

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-21 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Alan R. Bleier wrote: > I agree completely with Trevor. > I completely disagree with Trevor. Hitting double space [to get a full stop] is as unnatural and unhelpful as it gets. This may make some sense for a mobile platform, but is utterly unneeded on the desktop.

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-11-21 Thread Alan R. Bleier
Sorry I'm late joining this conversation, but it was sufficiently annoying to me today that I searched for information about it and found this thread. I agree completely with Trevor. If you are serious about "what you see is what you mean" and "LyX lets you concentrate on writing" (from http:/

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-04-15 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Bill Foote wrote: > > Is there an easy way for me to get rid of the "You cannot ... Please > read the > > tutorial" message? I know that typing two spaces that way doesn't > change the > > layout, and I'm m

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-04-12 Thread Maria Gouskova
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > > On Apr 11, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Bill Foote wrote: > > Is there an easy way for me to get rid of the "You cannot ... Please read > the > > tutorial" message?  I know that typing two s

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-04-12 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Apr 11, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Bill Foote wrote: Is there an easy way for me to get rid of the "You cannot ... Please read the tutorial" message? I know that typing two spaces that way doesn't change the layout, and I'm more-or-less fin

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-04-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 12/04/2012 12:34, Julio Rojas a écrit : I haven't even noticed this warning until now! :D The urge to put a double space at the end of sentences is not a disease shared in all cultures :) JMarc

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-04-12 Thread Julio Rojas
I haven't even noticed this warning until now! :D - Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 11/04/2012 23:11, Jens Nöckel a écrit : > > Although I also ignore this LyX message, there is s

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-04-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 11/04/2012 23:11, Jens Nöckel a écrit : Although I also ignore this LyX message, there is something inconsistent here: if two spaces generate a message, then why don't we get an analogous message after pressing several times? Admittedly, it's a little different because LyX allows a few mor

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-04-11 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:50:28 + (UTC) "Bill Foote bi...@jovial.com" suggested this: >I'm not going to adjust my typing style, because most of the time when >I type, putting two spaces after a period or some other punctuation is >the right thing to do. Also, I learned to type on a manual type

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-04-11 Thread Jens Nöckel
Although I also ignore this LyX message, there is something inconsistent here: if two spaces generate a message, then why don't we get an analogous message after pressing several times? Admittedly, it's a little different because LyX allows a few more returns before stopping to add them - but t

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-04-11 Thread stefano franchi
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Bill Foote wrote: > > Also, I learned to type on a manual typewriter in the mid-70's when I > > was in 4th grade; that muscle memory ain't going away any time soon :-) > > > > I know I could hack the code my

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-04-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Bill Foote wrote: > Is there an easy way for me to get rid of the "You cannot ... Please read the > tutorial" message?  I know that typing two spaces that way doesn't change the > layout, and I'm more-or-less fine with LyX auto-deleting the space.  I'm > completely

Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-04-11 Thread David L. Johnson
On 04/11/2012 01:50 PM, Bill Foote wrote: Is there an easy way for me to get rid of the "You cannot ... Please read the tutorial" message? I know that typing two spaces that way doesn't change the layout, and I'm more-or-less fine with LyX auto-deleting the space. I'm completely fine with TeX n

Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?

2012-04-11 Thread Bill Foote
Dear LyX community, First, thank you for a wonderful editor! Is there an easy way for me to get rid of the "You cannot ... Please read the tutorial" message? I know that typing two spaces that way doesn't change the layout, and I'm more-or-less fine with LyX auto-deleting the space. I'm complet