On 2011-06-28, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> The simplest solution is to add it to InsetSpace.
> This also seems conceptually most sane.
I disagree:
* it is a visible character, like other punctuation or "miscellaneous
technical" symbol⌫,
* there is a Unicode code point for this character,
* LyX translates the Unicode character to the LaTeX command (also loading
the required textcomp package) if it is not supported directly by the
font encoding,
why should it get special treatment?
The screen font is configurable in all supported OSs and there are free
fonts that contain the glyph (e.g. DejaVu). (We also do not have an
"EURO inset" just because some screen fonts miss the EURO symbol.)
In the LyX file there would be increased verbosity::
\begin_layout Standard
Why␣not␣this
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
instead of
\begin_inset space \textvisiblespace{}
\end_inset
this?
\end_layout
And how about drag-and-drop to/from other applications?
With Unicode, you get this "for free".
Günter
