Martin said: > I am very sure that there are many people that take a short look at a > LaTeX introduction (or that got a short introduction by somebody) that > were confused by the different space handling in > \LaTeX is good. > \LaTeX\ is good. > This is \LaTeX. > This is \LaTeX2e. > The rule may be relatively simple, but it could be even simpler. If > spaces after commands are always treated the same as suggested. Not w/ TeX / LaTeX as they are now written. There's a really good line somewhere (Michael Doob's _Gentle_?) to the effect that such intricacies are unavoidable in a system where text commands are intermixed w/ text as text. Another consideration here is that there're similar projects already---StarTeX comes to mind: http://www.ctan.org/tex- archive/help/Catalogue/entries/startex.html?action=/tex- archive/macros/ And why wouldn't a beginner just use something like LyX anyway? www.lyx.org To be fair, w/ Omega and Unicode there is a potential for fixing this, by having a Unicode code page specifically devoted to TeX commands / symbols, but that'd require direct re-working of Omega and plain.tex to set up. William -- William Adams, publishing specialist voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708 www.atlis.com