On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Garst R. Reese wrote:
> Dekel Tsur wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 12:21:52PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> > > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > | Lars> It does not buy anything other than 19 bytes saved.
> >
> > But you can have many protected spaces in one document.
> > For example, the reference manual contains 1012 p. spaces, so the cost is
> > 19228 bytes, or ~6% of the length of the file!
> >
> > > | It buys us a somewhat more coherent file format (roughly
> > > | latex-based).
> > >
> > > And we will probably move away from latex and towards something like
> > > <protected-space/> (or perhaps a short variant <pb/> )
> >
> > We had this discussion some time ago, and everybody agreed that we should use
> > "\SpecialChar ~" instead of "\SpecialChar \protected_separator"
> On the one hand, I'm comforted to hear that somebody besides me has to
> resort to protected spaces, OTOH, I think they suck, like ERT. I have
> yet to use one in a document that I personally wrote from scratch.
In my case just about everything I write gets a couple of protected spaces
because it's recommended practice to use one between a word and its
following citation~[1]. Just like that one, to ensure the citation
doesn't get orphaned. Maybe LaTeX/BibTeX should be smart enough to keep
them together without extra assistance? However that's beyond the scope
of LyX.
> Each, I think, indicates something lacking. As an example, I have
> poets who number stanzas or groups thereof, and I would like to center
> the stanza number over the stanza or group. Center usually places it
> too far to the right. I could probably work around that problem by
> using a minipage the the width of the longest line in the poem and
> centering in the minipage, but it is somewhat trial an error to
> determine how wide the minipage needs to be.
What happens with a minipage set to \columnwidth? Centred lines should
then be centred in the middle of the minipage and you shouldn't need to
worry about how wide the widest line of the poem is.
Allan. (ARRae)
