Re: confusion: interword spacing vs. unbreakble space

2005-09-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > What about a situation such as this: "Fig. 26"? To my eye, the interword > space behind the abbreviating period seems too wide. Should this be a > thin space instead? It should be an unbreakable space in any case (that is, thinspace or protected space ~). I use protected s

Re: confusion: interword spacing vs. unbreakble space

2005-09-09 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Juergen Spitzmueller writes: > 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

Re: confusion: interword spacing vs. unbreakble space

2005-09-07 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
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 "thinsp

Re: confusion: interword spacing vs. unbreakble space

2005-09-06 Thread Angus Leeming
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 spa

confusion: interword spacing vs. unbreakble space

2005-09-06 Thread David Soukal
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). Howe