Daniel Watkins wrote: > In Latex and so inside ERT (which AFAI can tell is what we're still talking > about), a ~ means a non-breaking space (and shows up as such when used > inside ERT in LyX), to be used between initals, for example. The only way I > can find to stop hyphenation (though this is only from a quick Google) is > "\hbox{no-break}"...
I'm talking about the shorthand "~, not about ~. However, this is only available in ngerman.sty and german.sty (and maybe some other language packages), where " is defined as active character. Jürgen