On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 04:01:01PM +0100, Arnd Hanses wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:03:24 -0500, John Weiss wrote:
>
> >FIFTH:
> > International considerations would be left unaffected. Our
> > non-American collegues already have to specify "french spacing" or
> > the like to shut off the internal [La]TeX spacing algorithm. so
> > there would be no problem for other languages.
> >
> >Alles klar?
> No! Nichts ist klar!
> We non-non-German non-Americans normally use Your non-non-American
> spacing.
> Common german modifications leave them untouched:
Okaaaay... That doesn't affect what I said, then. My
"intelligent-dot" algorithm doesn't add any extra space; LaTeX does
that. The feature I'm proposing here just specifies *to* *LaTeX* an
*explicit* *kind* of dot, not jsut a plain '.' character. It would
decide, based on a simple algorithm, when to specify ".\ " instead of
". ", when to specify "@." instead of ".", and when to just spit out
the "."
If you leave on the "extra space after certain punctuation
marks" feature to LaTeX, you'll see inter-sentence spacing and
inter-word spacing as usual. If you shut it off [either in the
preamble or through a LyX button on some Popup], there will be no [or
only slight] difference between inter-sentence and inter-word spacing,
as per the typographic rules of your language.
One more time for the clueless:
LyX IS NOT, CANNOT, AND NEVER WILL BE ADDING ANY EXTRA SPACE TO
ANYTHING; LaTeX DOES THAT.
Also, bitte lesen Sie die Briefen, die vor dem von Ihnen antwortenden
Briefe gekommen hatte, ehe Sie Ihren Antwort blitzend shicken. ;)
--
John Weiss
