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: New Math toolbar

2007-08-11 Thread Lee Yeoh
Thanks for the tips, Bennett. I'm still not sure if I totally understand, though. If I leave the LyX.app/Contents/Resources/ui file in the preferences, won't this mean that any of my settings for position of the toolbars and default visibility would be lost next time I overwrite LyX.app

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

Previous Win versions

2007-08-11 Thread Moschops
Which was the last version to run on Win98? 'Chops

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: Previous Win versions

2007-08-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Moschops schrieb: Which was the last version to run on Win98? There was no such version. LyX for Windows up to version 1.3.3 (using the XForms frontend) could be run using the cygwin unix emulator. I tried once to get it running on Win ME but failed. regards Uwe

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: Previous Win versions

2007-08-11 Thread Joost Verburg
Moschops wrote: Which was the last version to run on Win98? 'Chops It should be possible to make LyX 1.5 run on Windows 98/Me. I tried it a few weeks ago. Everything seems to work except the math mode. When you try to create an equation or open a document with mathematics, you get a crash.

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,

question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-11 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hello, I have linux (opensuse 10.2) and I want to know: 1) if I can install other distros of Tex like XeTeX, Tex Live, ConTeXt, etc., instead Latex and to use this with Lyx. 2) If I get a gain with this, like no package clash (ConTeXt), add more easy font (XeTeX), etc. Regards Marcelo

Re: New Math toolbar

2007-08-11 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 11, 2007, at 4:19 AM, Lee Yeoh wrote: Thanks for the tips, Bennett. I'm still not sure if I totally understand, though. If I leave the LyX.app/Contents/Resources/ui file in the preferences, won't this mean that any of my settings for position of the toolbars and default visibility

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-11 Thread Helge Hafting
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 07:07:08PM -0300, Marcelo Acuña wrote: Hello, I have linux (opensuse 10.2) and I want to know: 1) if I can install other distros of Tex like XeTeX, Tex Live, ConTeXt, etc., instead Latex and to use this with Lyx. 2) If I get a gain with this, like no package

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: New Math toolbar

2007-08-11 Thread Lee Yeoh
Thanks for the tips, Bennett. I'm still not sure if I totally understand, though. If I leave the LyX.app/Contents/Resources/ui file in the preferences, won't this mean that any of my settings for position of the toolbars and default visibility would be lost next time I overwrite LyX.app

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

Previous Win versions

2007-08-11 Thread Moschops
Which was the last version to run on Win98? 'Chops

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: Previous Win versions

2007-08-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Moschops schrieb: Which was the last version to run on Win98? There was no such version. LyX for Windows up to version 1.3.3 (using the XForms frontend) could be run using the cygwin unix emulator. I tried once to get it running on Win ME but failed. regards Uwe

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: Previous Win versions

2007-08-11 Thread Joost Verburg
Moschops wrote: Which was the last version to run on Win98? 'Chops It should be possible to make LyX 1.5 run on Windows 98/Me. I tried it a few weeks ago. Everything seems to work except the math mode. When you try to create an equation or open a document with mathematics, you get a crash.

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,

question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-11 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hello, I have linux (opensuse 10.2) and I want to know: 1) if I can install other distros of Tex like XeTeX, Tex Live, ConTeXt, etc., instead Latex and to use this with Lyx. 2) If I get a gain with this, like no package clash (ConTeXt), add more easy font (XeTeX), etc. Regards Marcelo

Re: New Math toolbar

2007-08-11 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 11, 2007, at 4:19 AM, Lee Yeoh wrote: Thanks for the tips, Bennett. I'm still not sure if I totally understand, though. If I leave the LyX.app/Contents/Resources/ui file in the preferences, won't this mean that any of my settings for position of the toolbars and default visibility

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-11 Thread Helge Hafting
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 07:07:08PM -0300, Marcelo Acuña wrote: Hello, I have linux (opensuse 10.2) and I want to know: 1) if I can install other distros of Tex like XeTeX, Tex Live, ConTeXt, etc., instead Latex and to use this with Lyx. 2) If I get a gain with this, like no package

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: New Math toolbar

2007-08-11 Thread Lee Yeoh
Thanks for the tips, Bennett. I'm still not sure if I totally understand, though. If I leave the LyX.app/Contents/Resources/ui file in the preferences, won't this mean that any of my settings for position of the toolbars and default visibility would be lost next time I overwrite LyX.app

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

Previous Win versions

2007-08-11 Thread Moschops
Which was the last version to run on Win98? 'Chops

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: Previous Win versions

2007-08-11 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Moschops schrieb: Which was the last version to run on Win98? There was no such version. LyX for Windows up to version 1.3.3 (using the XForms frontend) could be run using the cygwin unix emulator. I tried once to get it running on Win ME but failed. regards Uwe

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.

Re: Previous Win versions

2007-08-11 Thread Joost Verburg
Moschops wrote: Which was the last version to run on Win98? 'Chops It should be possible to make LyX 1.5 run on Windows 98/Me. I tried it a few weeks ago. Everything seems to work except the math mode. When you try to create an equation or open a document with mathematics, you get a crash.

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

question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-11 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hello, I have linux (opensuse 10.2) and I want to know: 1) if I can install other distros of Tex like XeTeX, Tex Live, ConTeXt, etc., instead Latex and to use this with Lyx. 2) If I get a gain with this, like no package clash (ConTeXt), add more easy font (XeTeX), etc. Regards Marcelo

Re: New Math toolbar

2007-08-11 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 11, 2007, at 4:19 AM, Lee Yeoh wrote: Thanks for the tips, Bennett. I'm still not sure if I totally understand, though. If I leave the LyX.app/Contents/Resources/ui file in the preferences, won't this mean that any of my settings for position of the toolbars and default visibility

Re: question about XeTex, ConTeXt and others

2007-08-11 Thread Helge Hafting
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 07:07:08PM -0300, Marcelo Acuña wrote: > Hello, > I have linux (opensuse 10.2) and I want to know: > > 1) if I can install other distros of Tex like XeTeX, > Tex Live, ConTeXt, etc., instead Latex and to use this > with Lyx. > > 2) If I get a gain with this, like no

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