On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Liviu Andronic <[email protected]>wrote:
> The other selling point was the continuous spellchecking function. In > pure LaTeX they were used to making a lot of unnecessary orthographic > mistakes, while in 2.0 many of those can be avoided. However it turns > out that this functionality is so very well hidden (in Prefs > > Language) that it took me to specifically point it out for the user to > become aware that it existed (sorry for my convoluted English). In > this sense addressing http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8589 would > improve novices' experience with LyX. > Continuous spell-checking is a fairly common editor's feature nowadays. Linux's Kile (a Latex editor) has it, for instance, and it is based on standard KDE components. As much as I love Lyx's spellchecker (and I wouldn't be able to work without it), I would hesitate to sell Lyx over Latex on it. (Tables are a different issue, of course, and Liviu's point is well-taken and worth remembering) Cheers, S. -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA [email protected] http://stefano.cleinias.org
