Re: Horizontal space inset

2008-04-01 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:35:03AM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > What about "Enspace (kern 0.5 em)", maybe placed after QQuad, such that > > the casual user would choose "Enskip (0.5 em)", which comes first? > > The expert user would be informed that this is a ker

Re: Horizontal space inset

2008-04-01 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:35:03AM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > What about "Enspace (kern 0.5 em)", maybe placed after QQuad, such that > > the casual user would choose "Enskip (0.5 em)", which comes first? > > The expert user would be informed that this is a kern

Re: Horizontal space inset

2008-03-31 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > What about "Enspace (kern 0.5 em)", maybe placed after QQuad, such that > the casual user would choose "Enskip (0.5 em)", which comes first? > The expert user would be informed that this is a kern spacing, so that he > knows that this could also be a vertical space in som

Re: Horizontal space inset

2008-03-31 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:08:36PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > Given that this is the first time that Enspace appears in a menu, > > why not simply (1) renaming "Enspace" to "Enskip", (2) make sure that > > when "protect" is selected "\hspace*{0.5em}" is produce

Re: Horizontal space inset

2008-03-31 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Given that this is the first time that Enspace appears in a menu, > why not simply (1) renaming "Enspace" to "Enskip", (2) make sure that > when "protect" is selected "\hspace*{0.5em}" is produced instead of > "\enspace", and (3) leaving "space-insert enspace" as it is bu

Re: Horizontal space inset

2008-03-31 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 03:21:16PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > To be frank, I never noticed it. Do you mean that somewhere in 1.4 there's > > an option to insert "Enspace" which really translates to \enskip? > > No. "space-insert enskip" inserts an enskip, wher

Re: Horizontal space inset

2008-03-31 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > To be frank, I never noticed it. Do you mean that somewhere in 1.4 there's > an option to insert "Enspace" which really translates to \enskip? No. "space-insert enskip" inserts an enskip, whereas "space-insert enspace" inserts an enspace. > In this case it would simply

Re: Horizontal space inset

2008-03-31 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 02:44:15PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > I think that you misunderstood \enskip and \enspace. They both have a > > length of 0.5em, but \enskip always inserts horizontal space, whereas > > \enspace inserts horizontal space when in horizonta

Re: Horizontal space inset

2008-03-31 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 02:15:43PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:09:30AM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: [...] > > AFAIU, enspace and enskip are of the same length (a half em), only one is > > protected, the other isn't. That's why I used only one combo entry while

Re: Horizontal space inset

2008-03-31 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > I think that you misunderstood \enskip and \enspace. They both have a > length of 0.5em, but \enskip always inserts horizontal space, whereas > \enspace inserts horizontal space when in horizontal mode but vertical > space when in vertical mode. Try the attached latex sni

Re: Horizontal space inset

2008-03-31 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:09:30AM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > In the new hspace inset (thanks Jürgen) one of the possible spaces > > is labeled "Enspace (0.5em)" but it really inserts \enskip. > > This could be okay by itself, as \enskip is defined similarly to

Re: Horizontal space inset

2008-03-31 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Enrico Forestieri wrote: > In the new hspace inset (thanks Jürgen) one of the possible spaces > is labeled "Enspace (0.5em)" but it really inserts \enskip. > This could be okay by itself, as \enskip is defined similarly to \quad > (inserted by "Quad (1em)") and \qquad (inserted by "QQuad (2em)", i.