At 12:26 PM 1/25/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Steven> Hi, if I use the spellchecker (ispell, pre6) it skips the text
>Steven> in footnotes which are collapsed. Is this correct behaviour?
>Yes. You can open/close all footnotes from the Edit menu.
Yes, I know, but this seems rather counter-intuitive to me. The last thing
I did before I declared my article ready last Sunday was spellchecking. I
did not know it would skip the collapsed footnotes so I just checked the
spelling and thought that was it. But maybe I'm picking nits here...
The article I submitted Monday was the first large document I wrote using
LyX. On the whole, it was a real blessing (and I didn't even have many
math). However, there were a few times I really got frustrated. I can't
toggle bold for example: once bold is always bold. Emphasize does work like
a toggle. Also, it seems that the start and the end of bold/emphasized text
is hidden between the characters. Sometimes I ended up with the start and
the end being at the same point, but it doesn't get deleted. The string
between them is of course empty, but you can see it when you walk with the
cursor through the text and when you type behind it the text becomes bold.
More serious is that this occasionally lead to LyX producing wrong LaTeX
that didn't compile and produced an obscure (to non-LaTeX users) error like
'too many }'. Also I had troubles with using an protected linebreak after a
bold text (in the Author layout): the linebreak didn't show up in the output.
Unfortunately, I can not reproduce these problems now and when I
encountered them my priority was to finish the text. So I just deleted the
string with the problems and retyped it. (I should have saved a copy, sorry.)
Dag,
Steven
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