On Saturday 21 March 2009 12:02:28 pm Doug Laidlaw wrote:> 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.
But on thinking about it, I am not talking about the URL under the Insert menu. I am talking about footnotes in a book for printing. They don't have to be clickable, and I prefer italics to the default typewriter font. I just haven't typed so many URLs before. With only one or two, it isn't a nuisance. Doug.
