On 10/22/2018 04:16 AM, Pol wrote:
A possible improvement of the spellchecker facility: Common, typical mispellings made by authors could be istantaneously autocorrected by lyx, by checking a suitable list maintained by authors themseves.
If there is to be a list of substring substitutions automatically to be made, then there is no particular reason to confine it to misspellings. If I somehow know that I am always going to intend to have typed “watermelon” when I type “giraffe”, or “\sim” when I type “\defeq”, then I will want these substitutions made as well.
But if I know that I never intend to type “satistics” then why would I still do it so often that the ordinary find-and-replace function weren't sufficient to fix the occasional lapse?
And do I really want a wordprocessor as if cynically imagined by Cyril M. Kornbluth
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51233/51233-h/51233-h.htm
