Text Formatting ⇒ Spaces after in-line Math Expressions not typeset

[Kickfoot]

For quite some time I have had a very strange problem in TeXShop under Snow Leopard.

It seems like if I press the spacebar to lightly after the end of inserting math using simple $ the space will show in the source file but not in the output file. For example if i write "$f(x)=x^2$ is a nice function." it will typeset as "f(x)=x^2is a nice function." However if I press spacebar really violently TeXShop will typeset the space correctly.

It is a pain going through every document looking for missing spaces. Does anyone know how to solve this?

[frabjous]

Are you seriously suggesting that it has to do with how hard you press the space bar? Computers don't work like that, trust me. There should be a space there, unless somehow a different character is being inserted for some reason. Can you provide a minimal working example showing the problem?

[Kickfoot]

Here a minimal example

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\documentclass{amsart}
\begin{document}
A small example with the formula $F=ma$ printed 
\end{document}

I attached the output.

I think your right in that the some other different character is inserted. When I open a document in a new ecoding (Mac OS Roman instead of Western (ISO Latin 1)) all the spaces that does not show are replaced by the symbol you get when typsetting "\dag". When I typeset in the new encoding the output is unchanged however.

Also the same thing (space in source but not in output) seem to happen if I press alt+space. Since I hold down Alt to get the $ perhaps I'm to slow at releasing Alt before pressing spacebar.

Can I tell the computer to understand Alt+space as just space?