On Wed, 25 May 2005, G. Milde wrote: > On 24.05.05, Sven Schreiber wrote: > > Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > > > > but if lyx already removes double-spaces, when why not remove space > > > before , . : ; etc.? > > > > Because going from one to two spaces is a matter of degree and --given > > that the space length is usually variable in latex, at least for > > justified text-- indicates that the user is using blanks as a > > quick-and-especially-dirty shortcut for layout. > > > > In contrast, going from zero to one blank is like 1:\infty and arguably > > a qualitative difference, rather than only a quantitative one. It is not > > a matter of dirty layout tricks.
Here's an alternative take on this problem. Why not use 'chktex' or a similar approach. For those who don't know 'chktex', it's a parser that detects common errors and mistakes, and it works with lyx if you have it installed. (Under Edit->CheckTeX I think). Anyway, the idea would be to run a tool separately in order to go through your document looking for situations such as "bla bla . Bla bla". The point is of course that you'd manually invoke the tool, rather than have it do substitutations as you type or paste. >From a UI perspective, perhaps this could be considered as a very special case of spell checking? cheers Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
