Re: [PATCH] Spacing Metrics

2007-12-26 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: > > At least we can apply the following (makes protected space look like > > normal space, except for the color). > > Fine with me. done. Jürgen

Re: [PATCH] Spacing Metrics

2007-12-24 Thread rgheck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: rgheck wrote: This must be something weird about your fonts. A normal space is the width of, uh, a normal space and a thin space is 1/6 the width of an 'M'. Thus: Well, the difference is smaller than before. These look pretty different. But we could chang

Re: [PATCH] Spacing Metrics

2007-12-24 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: > This must be something weird about your fonts. A normal space is the > width of, uh, a normal space and a thin space is 1/6 the width of an > 'M'. Thus: Well, the difference is smaller than before. > These look pretty different. But we could change the color, too, if you > wanted.

Re: [PATCH] Spacing Metrics

2007-12-23 Thread rgheck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: rgheck wrote: I've made the spaces match this, more or less, using width(char_type('M')) for the em size. Now that I see it, I have to say that I do not really like it. It might be more WYSIWYG, but at the cost of MYSIWYM. The two most frequently used spaces

Re: [PATCH] Spacing Metrics

2007-12-22 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: > I've made the spaces match this, more or less, using > width(char_type('M')) for the em size. Now that I see it, I have to say that I do not really like it. It might be more WYSIWYG, but at the cost of MYSIWYM. The two most frequently used spaces (by me), thinspace and normalspac

Re: [PATCH] Spacing Metrics

2007-12-21 Thread rgheck
Enrico Forestieri wrote: This doesn't seem to be correct. Here is how those spaces are defined in LaTeX: \def\enspace{\kern.5em } \def\enskip{\hskip.5em\relax} \def\quad{\hskip1em\relax} \def\qquad{\hskip2em\relax} I've made the spaces match this, more or less, using width(char_type('M')) f

Re: [PATCH] Spacing Metrics

2007-12-21 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > You can take the width of the 'm' letter, which was the original > definition. 'M' (capital), for that matter. However, this never was the original definition. The original definition refers to the height of the body (the metal block of the letter). > I read some

Re: [PATCH] Spacing Metrics

2007-12-21 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: > Jurgen, would you want it for branch? Yes. Jürgen

Re: [PATCH] Spacing Metrics

2007-12-21 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: > Can we find out how big an em is? An em is exactly the font size. So for a 10pt font, 1 em = 10 pt. Roughly, it also matches the width of the letter "M". Jürgen

Re: [PATCH] Spacing Metrics

2007-12-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, I doubt they're really right, but they look better than what we > had, which fixes the width of a quad e.g. independently of the font > size. So: Can we find out how big an em is? Is there some fixed > relationship between the size of an em and the size of

Re: [PATCH] Spacing Metrics

2007-12-20 Thread rgheck
Enrico Forestieri wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 02:33:54PM -0500, rgheck wrote: Forgot another one. Attached is a simple-minded patch that adjusts the display size of some spaces in LyX. This makes the interword and protected spaces the same size as a normal space rather than the same size

Re: [PATCH] Spacing Metrics

2007-12-20 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 02:33:54PM -0500, rgheck wrote: > > Forgot another one. > > Attached is a simple-minded patch that adjusts the display size of some > spaces in LyX. This makes the interword and protected spaces the same > size as a normal space rather than the same size as an "x", which

[PATCH] Spacing Metrics

2007-12-20 Thread rgheck
Forgot another one. Attached is a simple-minded patch that adjusts the display size of some spaces in LyX. This makes the interword and protected spaces the same size as a normal space rather than the same size as an "x", which in my default screen fonts looks too big. I've also adjusted the siz

Re: [PATCH] Spacing Metrics

2007-12-20 Thread Peter Kümmel
rgheck wrote: Attached is a simple-minded patch that adjusts the display size of some spaces in LyX. This makes the interword and protected spaces the same size as a normal space rather than the same size as an "x", which in my default screen fonts looks too big. I've also adjusted the size o

[PATCH] Spacing Metrics

2007-12-20 Thread rgheck
Attached is a simple-minded patch that adjusts the display size of some spaces in LyX. This makes the interword and protected spaces the same size as a normal space rather than the same size as an "x", which in my default screen fonts looks too big. I've also adjusted the size of the quad, wh