David Soukal wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I'm very confused about how to properly create an interword space. In
> LaTeX the standard way is to use "\ " for an interword space and \@ for
> the end-of-sentence spacing after punctuation. I was used to typing
> 
> bla, e.g.\ bla
> 
> to get the proper spacing (i.e. interword spacing). However in the LyX
> manual, the recommended way to do this is to use the protected space,
> i.e. ~. But this is not really the same thing, is it? If understand
> correctly "e.g.~bla" won't get broken at the end of a line as it should,
> right?
> 
> Could somebody, please, explain how to do this correctly?

Using ERT.

Things are nicer in LyX 1.4cvs. (Not yet released; here's a wee piccie to
whet your appetite.)

-- 
Angus

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