On Apr 22, 2004, at 12:29 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
Paul> I agree with you. However, according to the search that I did in Paul> the archives of the list, ERTs are not spell-checked, what is Paul> surprising. Of course that this LyX's limitation is not serious, Paul> as one can always spell-check one's LyX document externally, Paul> through aspell (for example) from the command line. Not spellchecking ERT is intentional, since they are not supposed to contain a lot of real words (ideally, they are not supposed to contain words at all).
Jean-Marc,
Thanks for your answer! I understand your point of view. However, sometimes, it is unavoidable the use of ERTs containing relevant text. For instance, I am writing a document in which I use the package enumerate. To use that package, it seems that it is really necessary (up to my best knowledge) to use an ERT. Therefore, I would like to submit to the consideration of LyX team the suggestion of adding a combo (that the user could tick or not) in order to be possible (to each user) the choice between spell-checking ERTs and not spell-checking ERTs. In case my suggestion is too difficult of implementing, please ignore it.
Regards,
Paul
Paul -
It is perhaps a surprising feature of LyX's ERT boxes that they don't have to be individually syntactically well-formed LaTeX expressions. Thus, you could have in one ERT box "\emph{" followed by some text (not in ERT -- just ordinary text), followed by a second ERT box containing "}". In this way, only the LaTeX bits need to be in ERT, and the text can be out of it. Wouldn't that satisfy your need for spellchecking?
Bennett
