Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >>>There is no difference between the two! >>> > | And the explanation (if I'm not mistaken) is as follows: > | The \begin{figure} causes TeX to go into restricted vertical mode, so > | the space after \begin{figure} is ignored. > | The space after the 'x' appears right before a \par command > | (which is generated by the \end{figure} macro), and therefore, > | it is ignored by TeX. > > And you manually had to inspect the latex implementation of this > environment to determine that this was safe...
it is safe, what Dekel wrote. the main float definition can be read in latex.ltx and starts with \def \def\@xfloat #1[#2]{% [...] > bette to use the '%' imho. no Herbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/