Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-14 Thread Sam Lewis
Richard, lets agree to differ for the time being and see how resources can be best used for continuing the project in a meaningful way. Cheers, Sam

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-14 Thread Sam Lewis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nicely phrased! I think it should be added somewhere to the wiki, although I don't know where. Perhaps a page discussing the focus/purpose/idea of LyX and WYSIWYM? Any ideas of where? I'm thinking that such a page would be a good reference when explaining what

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-14 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
I think improving the already existing (and fairly improvable) spellchecker is more important than adding a new one. Adding missing features like Replace All (see feature request at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3914 ) would notably improve the workflow in LyX

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-14 Thread Sam Lewis
Richard, lets agree to differ for the time being and see how resources can be best used for continuing the project in a meaningful way. Cheers, Sam

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-14 Thread Sam Lewis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nicely phrased! I think it should be added somewhere to the wiki, although I don't know where. Perhaps a page discussing the focus/purpose/idea of LyX and WYSIWYM? Any ideas of where? I'm thinking that such a page would be a good reference when explaining what

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-14 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
I think improving the already existing (and fairly improvable) spellchecker is more important than adding a new one. Adding missing features like Replace All (see feature request at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3914 ) would notably improve the workflow in LyX

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-14 Thread Sam Lewis
Richard, lets agree to differ for the time being and see how resources can be best used for continuing the project in a meaningful way. Cheers, Sam

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-14 Thread Sam Lewis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nicely phrased! I think it should be added somewhere to the wiki, although > I don't know where. Perhaps a page discussing the focus/purpose/idea of > LyX and WYSIWYM? Any ideas of where? > > I'm thinking that such a page would be a good reference when explaining

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-14 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
I think improving the already existing (and fairly improvable) spellchecker is more important than adding a new one. Adding missing features like "Replace All" (see feature request at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3914 ) would notably improve the workflow in LyX

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On 8/12/07, Fernando Roig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead of on-the-fly spellchecking, did anybody think about implmenting grammar checking (not necessarily on-the-fly)? I think that this could be a much interesting feature. I thought about it: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX-GrammarChecker

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On 8/12/07, Fernando Roig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead of on-the-fly spellchecking, did anybody think about implmenting grammar checking (not necessarily on-the-fly)? I think that this could be a much interesting feature. I thought about it:

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread Sam Lewis
Of course. And anyone who wants to code this can do so. This was in response to the suggestion that LyX lacked this incredibly wonderful and painfully obvious feature. My point was that it isn't obviously wonderful. Indeed, I'd go so far as to say that, if you think you want it, you're

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Sam Lewis wrote: Of course. And anyone who wants to code this can do so. This was in response to the suggestion that LyX lacked this incredibly wonderful and painfully obvious feature. My point was that it isn't obviously wonderful. Indeed, I'd go so far as to say that, if

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread Richard Heck
Sam Lewis wrote: Of course. And anyone who wants to code this can do so. This was in response to the suggestion that LyX lacked this incredibly wonderful and painfully obvious feature. My point was that it isn't obviously wonderful. Indeed, I'd go so far as to say that, if you think you want

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread Stefano Baroni
I do not like on the fly spellcheck either (among other nuisances, it forces me to change the default language everytime I switch from one language to another). However: 1) when writing short letters it may be useful; 2) I do not think it is a good idea to tell people what they should like

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread Richard Heck
Stefano Baroni wrote: I do not like on the fly spellcheck either (among other nuisances, it forces me to change the default language everytime I switch from one language to another). However: 1) when writing short letters it may be useful; 2) I do not think it is a good idea to tell people

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On 8/12/07, Fernando Roig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead of on-the-fly spellchecking, did anybody think about implmenting grammar checking (not necessarily on-the-fly)? I think that this could be a much interesting feature. I thought about it: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX-GrammarChecker

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On 8/12/07, Fernando Roig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead of on-the-fly spellchecking, did anybody think about implmenting grammar checking (not necessarily on-the-fly)? I think that this could be a much interesting feature. I thought about it:

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread Sam Lewis
Of course. And anyone who wants to code this can do so. This was in response to the suggestion that LyX lacked this incredibly wonderful and painfully obvious feature. My point was that it isn't obviously wonderful. Indeed, I'd go so far as to say that, if you think you want it, you're

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Sam Lewis wrote: Of course. And anyone who wants to code this can do so. This was in response to the suggestion that LyX lacked this incredibly wonderful and painfully obvious feature. My point was that it isn't obviously wonderful. Indeed, I'd go so far as to say that, if

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread Richard Heck
Sam Lewis wrote: Of course. And anyone who wants to code this can do so. This was in response to the suggestion that LyX lacked this incredibly wonderful and painfully obvious feature. My point was that it isn't obviously wonderful. Indeed, I'd go so far as to say that, if you think you want

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread Stefano Baroni
I do not like on the fly spellcheck either (among other nuisances, it forces me to change the default language everytime I switch from one language to another). However: 1) when writing short letters it may be useful; 2) I do not think it is a good idea to tell people what they should like

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread Richard Heck
Stefano Baroni wrote: I do not like on the fly spellcheck either (among other nuisances, it forces me to change the default language everytime I switch from one language to another). However: 1) when writing short letters it may be useful; 2) I do not think it is a good idea to tell people

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On 8/12/07, Fernando Roig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Instead of on-the-fly spellchecking, did anybody think about > implmenting grammar checking (not necessarily on-the-fly)? I think > that this could be a much interesting feature. I thought about it:

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On 8/12/07, Fernando Roig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Instead of on-the-fly spellchecking, did anybody think about implmenting grammar checking (not necessarily on-the-fly)? I think that this could be a much interesting feature. I thought about it:

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread Sam Lewis
> Of course. And anyone who wants to code this can do so. This was in > response to the suggestion that LyX lacked this incredibly wonderful and > painfully obvious feature. My point was that it isn't obviously > wonderful. Indeed, I'd go so far as to say that, if you think you want > it,

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Sam Lewis wrote: Of course. And anyone who wants to code this can do so. This was in response to the suggestion that LyX lacked this incredibly wonderful and painfully obvious feature. My point was that it isn't obviously wonderful. Indeed, I'd go so far as to say that, if

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread Richard Heck
Sam Lewis wrote: Of course. And anyone who wants to code this can do so. This was in response to the suggestion that LyX lacked this incredibly wonderful and painfully obvious feature. My point was that it isn't obviously wonderful. Indeed, I'd go so far as to say that, if you think you want

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread Stefano Baroni
I do not like on the fly spellcheck either (among other nuisances, it forces me to change the default language everytime I switch from one language to another). However: 1) when writing short letters it may be useful; 2) I do not think it is a good idea to tell people what they should like

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-13 Thread Richard Heck
Stefano Baroni wrote: I do not like on the fly spellcheck either (among other nuisances, it forces me to change the default language everytime I switch from one language to another). However: 1) when writing short letters it may be useful; 2) I do not think it is a good idea to tell people

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, for what it's worth, I'm a humanist, and so is JMarc, one of the lead developers. Me? Was that intended as some kind of insult? ;=) If you aren't an engineer, you're a humanist? ;-) /C --

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Richard Heck wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. +1 /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you aren't an engineer, you're a humanist? ;-) Bu I don't like people, I can't be an humanist! JMarc

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. +1 I'm happy to just run spellcheck at the end, but I'm not sure this discussion is on point. Assuming that a significant number of users want it on-the-fly (enough to motivate some

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Fernando Roig
Instead of on-the-fly spellchecking, did anybody think about implmenting grammar checking (not necessarily on-the-fly)? I think that this could be a much interesting feature. Fernando Citando Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm happy to just run spellcheck at the end, but I'm not

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Richard Heck
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, for what it's worth, I'm a humanist, and so is JMarc, one of the lead developers. Me? Was that intended as some kind of insult? ;=) Whoops. Sorry. Richard --

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. +1 I'm happy to just run spellcheck at the end, but I'm not sure this discussion is on point. Assuming that a significant number of users want it on-the-fly (enough to

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 12 August 2007 04:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, for what it's worth, I'm a humanist, and so is JMarc, one of the lead developers. Me? Was that intended as some kind of insult? ;=) If

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 12 August 2007 10:22, Paul A. Rubin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. +1 I'm happy to just run spellcheck at the end, but I'm not sure this discussion is on point. Assuming that a significant number of

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: All I can tell you is the guy from my LUG who wanted on-the-fly spellchecking is a techogeek supreme, probably as likely to document in vi (Vim is too touchy feely). He uses fvwm because fvwm2 is too bloated, Icewm is a monument to bloat, and he probably thinks KDE and Gnome

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 12 August 2007 12:58, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: All I can tell you is the guy from my LUG who wanted on-the-fly spellchecking is a techogeek supreme, probably as likely to document in vi (Vim is too touchy feely). He uses fvwm because fvwm2 is too bloated, Icewm is

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread killermike
On Sunday 12 August 2007 17:34:38 Steve Litt wrote: All I can tell you is the guy from my LUG who wanted on-the-fly BTW, how did that go? -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk - about me, music, geek sitcom etc.

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, for what it's worth, I'm a humanist, and so is JMarc, one of the lead developers. Me? Was that intended as some kind of insult? ;=) If you aren't an engineer, you're a humanist? ;-) /C --

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Richard Heck wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. +1 /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you aren't an engineer, you're a humanist? ;-) Bu I don't like people, I can't be an humanist! JMarc

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. +1 I'm happy to just run spellcheck at the end, but I'm not sure this discussion is on point. Assuming that a significant number of users want it on-the-fly (enough to motivate some

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Fernando Roig
Instead of on-the-fly spellchecking, did anybody think about implmenting grammar checking (not necessarily on-the-fly)? I think that this could be a much interesting feature. Fernando Citando Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm happy to just run spellcheck at the end, but I'm not

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Richard Heck
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, for what it's worth, I'm a humanist, and so is JMarc, one of the lead developers. Me? Was that intended as some kind of insult? ;=) Whoops. Sorry. Richard --

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. +1 I'm happy to just run spellcheck at the end, but I'm not sure this discussion is on point. Assuming that a significant number of users want it on-the-fly (enough to

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 12 August 2007 04:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, for what it's worth, I'm a humanist, and so is JMarc, one of the lead developers. Me? Was that intended as some kind of insult? ;=) If

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 12 August 2007 10:22, Paul A. Rubin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. +1 I'm happy to just run spellcheck at the end, but I'm not sure this discussion is on point. Assuming that a significant number of

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: All I can tell you is the guy from my LUG who wanted on-the-fly spellchecking is a techogeek supreme, probably as likely to document in vi (Vim is too touchy feely). He uses fvwm because fvwm2 is too bloated, Icewm is a monument to bloat, and he probably thinks KDE and Gnome

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 12 August 2007 12:58, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: All I can tell you is the guy from my LUG who wanted on-the-fly spellchecking is a techogeek supreme, probably as likely to document in vi (Vim is too touchy feely). He uses fvwm because fvwm2 is too bloated, Icewm is

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread killermike
On Sunday 12 August 2007 17:34:38 Steve Litt wrote: All I can tell you is the guy from my LUG who wanted on-the-fly BTW, how did that go? -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk - about me, music, geek sitcom etc.

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Well, for what it's worth, I'm a humanist, and so is JMarc, one of the lead developers. Me? Was that intended as some kind of insult? ;=) If you aren't an engineer, you're a humanist? ;-) /C --

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Richard Heck wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. +1 /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > If you aren't an engineer, you're a humanist? ;-) Bu I don't like people, I can't be an humanist! JMarc

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. +1 I'm happy to just run spellcheck at the end, but I'm not sure this discussion is on point. Assuming that a significant number of users want it on-the-fly (enough to motivate some

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Fernando Roig
Instead of on-the-fly spellchecking, did anybody think about implmenting grammar checking (not necessarily on-the-fly)? I think that this could be a much interesting feature. Fernando Citando "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm happy to just run spellcheck at the end, but I'm not

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Richard Heck
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Well, for what it's worth, I'm a humanist, and so is JMarc, one of the lead developers. Me? Was that intended as some kind of insult? ;=) Whoops. Sorry. Richard --

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. +1 I'm happy to just run spellcheck at the end, but I'm not sure this discussion is on point. Assuming that a significant number of users want it on-the-fly (enough to

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 12 August 2007 04:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Well, for what it's worth, I'm a humanist, and so is JMarc, one of the > >> lead developers. > > > > Me? Was that intended as some kind of

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 12 August 2007 10:22, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of > >> writing. > > > > +1 > > I'm happy to just run spellcheck at the end, but I'm not sure this > discussion is on point. Assuming that a

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Steve Litt wrote: All I can tell you is the guy from my LUG who wanted on-the-fly spellchecking is a techogeek supreme, probably as likely to document in vi (Vim is too touchy feely). He uses fvwm because fvwm2 is too bloated, Icewm is a monument to bloat, and he probably thinks KDE and Gnome

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 12 August 2007 12:58, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > All I can tell you is the guy from my LUG who wanted on-the-fly > > spellchecking is a techogeek supreme, probably as likely to document in > > vi (Vim is too touchy feely). He uses fvwm because fvwm2 is too bloated, > >

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-12 Thread killermike
On Sunday 12 August 2007 17:34:38 Steve Litt wrote: > > All I can tell you is the guy from my LUG who wanted on-the-fly BTW, how did that go? -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk - about me, music, geek sitcom etc.

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Bo Peng
Is there any way to do on-the-fly spellchecking? Not now. Is there any plan to add on-the-fly spellchecking later? Being considered for 1.6.0, along with auto-completion, abbreviation etc. Cheers, Bo

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Sam Lewis
I also would like to express my support for a on-the-fly-spellchecker. It would bring LyX in line with other similar editors, where such a feature has been standard for many year. A feature poll in our wiki has indicated an overwhelming support for it by many LyX users. Although the implementation

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Is there any way to do on-the-fly spellchecking? Not now. Is there any plan to add on-the-fly spellchecking later? Being considered for 1.6.0, along with auto-completion, abbreviation etc. Cheers, Bo I want to have on-the-fly spellchecking, auto-completion and abbreviation. I

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Richard Heck
Sam Lewis wrote: I also would like to express my support for a on-the-fly-spellchecker. It would bring LyX in line with other similar editors, where such a feature has been standard for many year. A feature poll in our wiki has indicated an overwhelming support for it by many LyX users. Although

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread killermike
On Saturday 11 August 2007 17:05:41 Richard Heck wrote: Sam Lewis wrote: I also would like to express my support for a on-the-fly-spellchecker. It would bring LyX in line with other similar editors, where such a feature has been standard for many year. A feature poll in our wiki has

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Sam Lewis
Hi Mike (and others), My spelling is so bad, that it's usually better to just get one with what I want to write and then correct at the end. On a side note, my spelling is not very good either, but I found that it has improved through the use of an immediate indication. This also gives me

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Richard Heck
Sam Lewis wrote: I think one of the crucial differences, is the naturally high number of mathematics, logisticians, etc. in the LyX user and developer community, who have a very different approach to *writing* than one finds humanities. This presumably has resulted in this peculiar situation

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, for what it's worth, I'm a humanist, and so is JMarc, one of the lead developers. Me? Was that intended as some kind of insult? ;=) I think Juergen is you man. JMarc

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Stacia Hartleben
This has been on bugzilla for some time - cast your vote for implementation :) http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718 On 8/11/07, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, for what it's worth, I'm a humanist, and so is JMarc, one of the

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Saturday 11 August 2007 19:06:49 Richard Heck wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. I agree with this. A spell checker highlighting in some way, anything it does not understand, is most distracting and too easily breaks the thread of thought. Much

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Bo Peng
I agree with this. A spell checker highlighting in some way, anything it does not understand, is most distracting and too easily breaks the thread of thought. Both sides have their (good) reasons to like/dislike this feature. LyX will certainly provide an option to turn this feature on or off,

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread John O'Gorman
On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 21:15 +0100, Grahame Blackwood wrote: On Saturday 11 August 2007 19:06:49 Richard Heck wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. I agree with this. A spell checker highlighting in some way, anything it does not understand, is

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Bo Peng
Is there any way to do on-the-fly spellchecking? Not now. Is there any plan to add on-the-fly spellchecking later? Being considered for 1.6.0, along with auto-completion, abbreviation etc. Cheers, Bo

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Sam Lewis
I also would like to express my support for a on-the-fly-spellchecker. It would bring LyX in line with other similar editors, where such a feature has been standard for many year. A feature poll in our wiki has indicated an overwhelming support for it by many LyX users. Although the implementation

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Is there any way to do on-the-fly spellchecking? Not now. Is there any plan to add on-the-fly spellchecking later? Being considered for 1.6.0, along with auto-completion, abbreviation etc. Cheers, Bo I want to have on-the-fly spellchecking, auto-completion and abbreviation. I

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Richard Heck
Sam Lewis wrote: I also would like to express my support for a on-the-fly-spellchecker. It would bring LyX in line with other similar editors, where such a feature has been standard for many year. A feature poll in our wiki has indicated an overwhelming support for it by many LyX users. Although

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread killermike
On Saturday 11 August 2007 17:05:41 Richard Heck wrote: Sam Lewis wrote: I also would like to express my support for a on-the-fly-spellchecker. It would bring LyX in line with other similar editors, where such a feature has been standard for many year. A feature poll in our wiki has

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Sam Lewis
Hi Mike (and others), My spelling is so bad, that it's usually better to just get one with what I want to write and then correct at the end. On a side note, my spelling is not very good either, but I found that it has improved through the use of an immediate indication. This also gives me

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Richard Heck
Sam Lewis wrote: I think one of the crucial differences, is the naturally high number of mathematics, logisticians, etc. in the LyX user and developer community, who have a very different approach to *writing* than one finds humanities. This presumably has resulted in this peculiar situation

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, for what it's worth, I'm a humanist, and so is JMarc, one of the lead developers. Me? Was that intended as some kind of insult? ;=) I think Juergen is you man. JMarc

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Stacia Hartleben
This has been on bugzilla for some time - cast your vote for implementation :) http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718 On 8/11/07, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, for what it's worth, I'm a humanist, and so is JMarc, one of the

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Saturday 11 August 2007 19:06:49 Richard Heck wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. I agree with this. A spell checker highlighting in some way, anything it does not understand, is most distracting and too easily breaks the thread of thought. Much

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Bo Peng
I agree with this. A spell checker highlighting in some way, anything it does not understand, is most distracting and too easily breaks the thread of thought. Both sides have their (good) reasons to like/dislike this feature. LyX will certainly provide an option to turn this feature on or off,

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread John O'Gorman
On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 21:15 +0100, Grahame Blackwood wrote: On Saturday 11 August 2007 19:06:49 Richard Heck wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. I agree with this. A spell checker highlighting in some way, anything it does not understand, is

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Bo Peng
> Is there any way to do on-the-fly spellchecking? Not now. > Is there any plan to add > on-the-fly spellchecking later? Being considered for 1.6.0, along with auto-completion, abbreviation etc. Cheers, Bo

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Sam Lewis
I also would like to express my support for a on-the-fly-spellchecker. It would bring LyX in line with other similar editors, where such a feature has been standard for many year. A feature poll in our wiki has indicated an overwhelming support for it by many LyX users. Although the implementation

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> > Is there any way to do on-the-fly spellchecking? > > Not now. > > > Is there any plan to add > > on-the-fly spellchecking later? > > Being considered for 1.6.0, along with > auto-completion, abbreviation etc. > > Cheers, > Bo > I want to have on-the-fly spellchecking, auto-completion and

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Richard Heck
Sam Lewis wrote: I also would like to express my support for a on-the-fly-spellchecker. It would bring LyX in line with other similar editors, where such a feature has been standard for many year. A feature poll in our wiki has indicated an overwhelming support for it by many LyX users. Although

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread killermike
On Saturday 11 August 2007 17:05:41 Richard Heck wrote: > Sam Lewis wrote: > > I also would like to express my support for a on-the-fly-spellchecker. It > > would bring LyX in line with other similar editors, where such a feature > > has been standard for many year. A feature poll in our wiki has

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Sam Lewis
Hi Mike (and others), > My spelling is so bad, that it's usually better to just get one with what > I want to write and then correct at the end. On a side note, my spelling is not very good either, but I found that it has improved through the use of an "immediate indication". This also gives me

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Richard Heck
Sam Lewis wrote: I think one of the crucial differences, is the "naturally" high number of mathematics, logisticians, etc. in the LyX user and developer community, who have a very different approach to *writing* than one finds humanities. This presumably has resulted in this peculiar situation

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, for what it's worth, I'm a humanist, and so is JMarc, one of the > lead developers. Me? Was that intended as some kind of insult? ;=) I think Juergen is you man. JMarc

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Stacia Hartleben
This has been on bugzilla for some time - cast your vote for implementation :) http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718 On 8/11/07, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, for what it's worth, I'm a humanist, and so is JMarc, one

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Saturday 11 August 2007 19:06:49 Richard Heck wrote: > Rather, I think > instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. I agree with this. A spell checker highlighting in some way, anything it does not understand, is most distracting and too easily breaks the thread of thought.

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