On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 07:28:07PM +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Here's the patch. Lyx2lyx works now, the metrics problem remains, and I'm
> stuck with that. Maybe someone has an idea.
>
> Otherwise, objections?
I think that there should be some visual difference between enspace,
quad, qquad, and custom spaces. ATM they all look the same.
Just as a suggestion, maybe your new inset could support leaders.
Leaders are a special case of glue as far as TeX is concerned.
Ordinary glue fills space with nothing, while leaders fill space
with any desired thing. For example, \leaders<some box>\hskip<glue>
has the same effect as \hskip<glue> except that the specified box
is used as a fill pattern.
A \lspace macro could be defined as
\def\lspace#1#2{\vrule [EMAIL PROTECTED]@\nobreak
\leaders\hbox{#1}\hskip #2\hskip [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and then used as follows:
\lspace{$\rightarrow$}{\fill}
\lspace{ $\rightarrow$ }{\fill}
\lspace{.-}{5cm}
\lspace{abc}{5cm}
In this way a fill pattern could also be defined by the user for
custom lengths.
--
Enrico
