it is not the copy-paste that is the problem as such. but if lyx already removes double-spaces, when why not remove space before , . : ; etc.?
and if you are french, then the babel setting should introduce half-space before the relevant chars : ; ? ! ect. i should say that the problem is quite precisely defined, and no guessing has to be done. martin On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:35:56AM +0200, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > > the problem is the whitespace before the . - that apparently arose when > > i copy/pasted part of the sentence. > > > > i should say that lyx ought to remove whitespace before . , ; : etc. if > > one really wants a whitespace before one of these characters, use a > > protected blank. > > > > Hi Martin, I'm sorry, but I'm against this general suggestion. Lyx > should not try to guess what the user "really" wanted to write, that > would remind me of annoying Word behavior. > > But if you were suggesting that such checks should happen for a > copy/paste action, then I'd say it's worth pursuing. I guess that when > Lyx is scriptable it will also be easy to have such checks running as > "the last task" before you print. > > -sven
