Tim Michelsen wrote:
> 
> Very good point. I often do get the comment that I should run the spell
> checker. But it takes the same amount of time to check with the Lyx 
> spell checker and train it all the technical terms as
> printing and correcting it manually.

Especially if you write a lot of code, which it always tries to
spell-check as well...

> 
>> I still use Word for the final spell check of my documents. After the
>> LyX spell checker run and proof-reading everything, I just copy the
>> whole text into an empty word document and look for suspicious red and
>> green lines.
> How to you do this?
> I can't copy anything from Lyx to another program on Ubuntu Feisty (V.
> 1.4.3).
> Selections I do within Lyx are ignored by other programs.
> 
> I never understood why Lyx which is based on QT is not able to access
> the windows manager clipboard like the following procedure:
> 1) CTRL+A = select the whole text in Lyx
> 2) CTRL+C = copy selected text
> 3) switch to Gedit, Kile, Kate or Openoffice
> 4) CTRL+V = paste selected text there
> 
> I am not taking of X-server clipboard. There are several posts about it.
> Why not using the normal clipboad just as copying from Kate to Gedit?
> (Please correct me if I am wrong here!)

Well, I am doing it on Windows (obviously :-)), where the clipboard can
be used as expected for getting things *out of LyX*. Pasting Text, etc.
*into* LyX, is a bit more complicated (as one always has to choose "past
as lines" or "past as paragraphs", where the latter would be a
reasonable default), but works as well.

However, as far as I know, the developers have been doing a lot of good
work on this topic for 1.5, so we can expect quite some improvements in
clipboard handling :-)


Daniel

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