Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
Helge Hafting wrote:
Pulldown list for selecting distance:
small, med, big, fill, user defined
I'd add the insetspace spaces here as well (thinspace, quad, qquad and
friends; have a look at insetspace.C)
Other than that, the plan looks good.
Sure about this?
I hope the reason is more than just generalization of the type
"keep all spacing in one place". Too much generalization for
its own sake is a bad thing. (This can be taken an absurd step
further - put the plain interword space in the dialog too,
freeing up the spacebar key. :-)
As a user, I think differently about inserting big spacing
like "fill" or "5cm", than I think about thinspace and friends.
The thinspace is very much like the ordinary space - it is a
character you insert. You don't really want to wade through
a dialog for this?
Now, the thinspace may of course still be accessible
directly on the insert menu, even if it also is available in
the spacing/formatting dialog. There is another problem though,
most of these other spaces are so short that they only make
sense for spaces, and perhaps for rules. A thinspace-length arrow
does not work, arrows nead at least bigskip length. An underbrace
needs even more. A medskip or shorter dotfill is just a dot.
Should the short lengths be limited to spaces/rules only, or
do we take the approach that anybody asking for something
stupid should get something stupid. Latex accepts, but
a "medskip" underbrace is ugly in the way it overwrites
the following text or sticks way into the right margin.
Helge Hafting
