On 2011-06-29, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: >> why should it get special treatment?
> Because it's a "space" variant. No, \textvisiblespace is an ordinary symbol (that stands for an ASCII space character or for the action "Press the Space key"). In the second sense, it is similar to 1761: 0x2196 "Home" "" "" "\\nwarrow" "amssymb" # Qt::Key_Home, NORTH WEST ARROW 1762: 0x2198 "End" "" "" "\\searrow" "" # Qt::Key_End, SOUTH EAST ARROW 1765: 0x21de "Option-Up Arrow" "" "" "" # Qt::Key_PageUp, UPWARDS ARROW WITH DOUBLE STROKE = page up 1766: 0x21df "Option-Down Arrow" "" "" "" # Qt::Key_PageDown, DOWNWARDS ARROW WITH DOUBLE STROKE = page down 1767: 0x21e4 "Shift-Tab" "" "" "" # Qt::Key_Backtab, LEFTWARDS ARROW TO BAR = leftward tab 1768: 0x21e5 "Tab" "" "" "" # Qt::Key_Tab, RIGHTWARDS ARROW TO BAR = rightward tab 1769: 0x21ea "Caps Lock" "" "" "" # Qt::Key_CapsLock, UPWARDS WHITE ARROW FROM BAR = caps lock 1813: 0x2326 "Delete" "" "" "" # Qt::Key_Delete, ERASE TO THE RIGHT = delete to the right key 1815: 0x232b "Backspace" "" "" "" # Qt::Key_Backspace, ERASE TO THE LEFT = delete to the left key 1816: 0x238b "Escape" "" "" "" # Qt::Key_Escape, BROKEN CIRCLE WITH NORTHWEST ARROW = escape > If it's covered by InsetSpace, it can be easily toggled from/to other > space types. Most of the time, toggling would involve ordinary spaces or NBSP (and not just one but *all* in some text portion). I don't think it is easier to toggle a set of visible spaces via inset dialogue compared to find/replace. > This doesn't mean that the unicode glyph couldn't be supported anyway, > via unicodesymbols (and the symbols dialog). We also support NO-BREAK > SPACE and EN DASH both via Inset and unicode. That's pretty orthogonal, > IMHO. IMO, it is rather a remnant from the pre-Unicode days of LyX. Also, drag-and-dop of a NO-BREAK SPACE inset into another application results a plain space instead of a NBSP character. Günter
