Uwe Stöhr wrote: > I also thought this, but Günter pointed me to the right typography that > there is no space between abbreviations: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbreviation#Periods_.28full_stops.29_and_spac >es
Your interpretation is wrong. This article talks about _full_ spaces inbetween macros, not thin spaces (which are not mentioned anywhere). If thin spaces are not available, one should use no space rather than a full space. Fortunately, however, LaTeX provides proper thin spaces. The (English) typographic literature I know (Bringhurst, Hochuli) generally recommend thin spaces (or no spaces, if thin spaces are not available) inbetween abbreviations > While correcting this, I saw that most of the cases "e.g." already didn't > use a space. The space was mainly introduced, by non-native speaker like me > ;-). I think we should use them. Thin spaces might have come out of fashion because modern word processors do not support them properly. This is one thing where LyX is superior, and we should play out this advantage. Jürgen
