Capitals are definitely manual in Latex, but I seem to remember that TeX was able to manage spaces in a contextual way. Also, isn't Babel supposed to handle some typographical spaces?
Murat 2011/10/20 Helge Hafting <helge.haft...@hist.no> > On 20. okt. 2011 11:20, Andrea Montinaro wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> my question is: How can i get capital letter automatically after every >> dot? and more: How can I have the right space afet comma or bracket etc.? >> I’m using the lastest LYX version in windows. >> Thank you very much who can help me and solve these problem. >> > > > LyX does not have such autocorrection, so you can't get it currently. Try > to type correctly instead, and proofread. > > There are many that don't want to have such autocorrection either, because > it is immensely irritating when it goes wrong. And it will, probably. At > least every existing autocorrector has some failures. > > Sometimes, we don't want capitalization, such as in "e.g." This could be > added as an exception, but LyX support many languages with many different > rules for captitalization. > > Sometimes, a space after comma is not wanted. In my language, comma is used > as a decimal separator. (45 cent is $0,45) Having to undo wrong > "corrections" is much worse than simply having to type correct. > > Also, even "perfect" correction has its problems. I am used to type > space after comma, with corrections I'd get two spaces. :-( > > Helge Hafting > -- Prof. Murat Yildizoglu Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113) Avenue Léon Duguit 33608 Pessac cedex France yi...@u-bordeaux4.fr http://yildizoglu.info http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu
