David Soukal wrote: > 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
correct is: bla, e.\,g.\ bla (with "thinspace" inbetween the abbreviation). > 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? The suggestion in the LyX manual is wrong, since a linebreak should be possible at that point, but LyX (until forthcoming 1.4, as Angus noted) didn't support interword and other spaces. In the meantime, you can use this workaround and add the appropriate bindings to you bindfile: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted#toc44 HTH, Jürgen
