Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> I think that there should be some visual difference between enspace,
> quad, qquad, and custom spaces. ATM they all look the same.
Well, this is exactly the metrics problem I was talking about.
> 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.
I think this is something for later.
Jürgen
