On Monday 29 December 2003 10:33, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Christian> * Automatic mode where (minor) misspellings automatically > Christian> are corrected. > > We should definitely avoid that. This causes endless frustration.
Agree! I want fully control over my own document. This auto-correct features often miss up the documents. > Word (and emacs flyspell mode) work in this 'semi-automatic' mode. > What happens is that the context menu (that we have yet to implement > in LyX) contains the list of possible replacements provided by the > spellchecker. It is as easy as that. This means that you can replace > words with a couple mouse clicks. Yes! This is exactly what I want. This was what I ment by the cup of cofee and the mouse i my hands. Sorry for not having been clear about it. > For the record, I kind of like this feature myself. I am happy to hear that from one of the developers. > Christian> About the visual feedback... If you type a word that the > Christian> spellchecker doesn't know about, e.g. let's say you type > Christian> "the work of Shigeo Hirose". Here both 'Shigeo' and > Christian> 'Hirose' will be marked as misspelled until you have added > Christian> them to a database or something. - Would you feel > Christian> distracted by having to add them to the database? - Or > Christian> would you just ignore the wavy red line for now? (I think a > Christian> wavy red line would distract me) I would not feel distracted by that. Maybe because I maintain my own additional dictionary (that I from time to time want to submit to the Danish i/apell dictionary). In this way I only have to learn the spell checker the words once (often specific acedemic terms) - and I get fewer wavy lines. > To rephrase this: one advantage of the approach is that you edit in > the LyX window, not in some dialog. Yup! :-) -j -- Janus Sandsgaard http://janus.dk
