On Saturday 21 March 2009 12:14:46 am silvio grosso wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I would like to donate something more to the "continuous spell checking > project". The link is: http://www.lyx.org/Donate. > At present, It lacks 237 euros to be accepted by Abdelrazak Younes > > First of all, I know it might be obvious but I would like to know whether > this feature is going to work on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac. I > suppose the answer is positive... > > Secondly, I read the roadmap about Lyx 2 and there is an interesting > improvement related to the spell checking. More precisely, I noticed Jurgen > Spitzmüller has introduced support for the MyThes thesaurus library which > is what OpenOffice uses. The link is: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20 I > am wondering if this will apply to the continuous spell checking feature. > In short, the dictionaries are going to be the same? > I am interested mainly in the Italian dictionary because I know all > thesaurus for Italian are really good in OpenOffice. > > Thirdly, I would like to know whether this extension could damage the Lyx > performances. If this happens, needless to say, It could be disabled by > default... In many softwares as OpenOffice using the spell checker on > windows xp I have never noticed any problem... Nevertheless Lyx is a very > different software... > > To sum up, is there a date regarding the availability of this feature > (provided the 1000 euro are reached soon)? I am aware it is a really early > to ask about the Lyx 2 version but I am wondering if you developers have a > rough idea regarding its release date. Maybe after summer 2009? I looked > for in the roadmap section but I didn't find anything. > > Best regards, > > Silvio
I haven't looked at the draft, but I would like to see the spellchecker more selective. It queries every "word" in an URL. Accuracy in an URL is rarely connected with dictionary spelling. Doug.
