Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 06:45:38PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > | > This patch adds two more special characters: normal space > | > (\<space>) and thin space (\,), with a screen display and > | > handling similar to the protected space (see the attached > | > screenshot). IMHO these commands belong to the basics that LyX > | > should support. > | > | One question: instead of having numerous lyxfuncs > | (the new default-space-insert and thin-space-insert, > | and the old protected-space-insert, end-of-sentence-period-insert > | etc.) wouldn't it better to use one lyxfunc special-char-insert > | <arg> where <arg> is ~ \@ \, etc. ? > > No. Too must latex centric thinking for my taste. > > the lfuns should be usable from the minibuffer.
What should be done eventually is to de-specialize the end-of-sentence-period-insert to have "\@.", "\@!" and "\@?" probably from one function. But this is of course independent from the new space-inserts and surely a 1.3.0-feature. Jürgen.