Re: Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters
John Coppens wrote: On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:02:39 + (GMT) silvio grosso grossosil...@yahoo.it wrote: To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same behaviour about capital letters as Writer or Word? Do think about this. I have noticed the 'feature' in some editors, then noticed that those programs also want to be intelligent and, for example don't permit 'MHz' (they consider the only the first letter should be capitalized). Then, to solve this, they have an exception table where you can put those. I ended up losing more time administering the exceptions than what I could have ever gained by the capitalize-checking feature. I agree. And then there are abbreviations like i.e. - no capitalization after the period. And there are file names and programming language constructs with periods. . . And all the other things autocorrection gets wrong. In Scandinavian languages, you're not supposed to capitalize the word i (it means in). I have lost count of all the papers I have read with miscapitalized i. It is not as if it is hard to hit the shift key now and then. And we usually know about our common mistakes and look for them. Absurdity done by word processors is more tricky. Especially when it can't be fixed because the stupid thing keeps re-applying a wrong fix. :-( I hope LyX won't fall into that trap. Helge Hafting
Re: Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters
John Coppens wrote: On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:02:39 + (GMT) silvio grosso grossosil...@yahoo.it wrote: To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same behaviour about capital letters as Writer or Word? Do think about this. I have noticed the 'feature' in some editors, then noticed that those programs also want to be intelligent and, for example don't permit 'MHz' (they consider the only the first letter should be capitalized). Then, to solve this, they have an exception table where you can put those. I ended up losing more time administering the exceptions than what I could have ever gained by the capitalize-checking feature. I agree. And then there are abbreviations like i.e. - no capitalization after the period. And there are file names and programming language constructs with periods. . . And all the other things autocorrection gets wrong. In Scandinavian languages, you're not supposed to capitalize the word i (it means in). I have lost count of all the papers I have read with miscapitalized i. It is not as if it is hard to hit the shift key now and then. And we usually know about our common mistakes and look for them. Absurdity done by word processors is more tricky. Especially when it can't be fixed because the stupid thing keeps re-applying a wrong fix. :-( I hope LyX won't fall into that trap. Helge Hafting
Re: Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters
John Coppens wrote: On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:02:39 + (GMT) silvio grossowrote: To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same behaviour about capital letters as Writer or Word? Do think about this. I have noticed the 'feature' in some editors, then noticed that those programs also want to be intelligent and, for example don't permit 'MHz' (they consider the only the first letter should be capitalized). Then, to solve this, they have an exception table where you can put those. I ended up losing more time administering the exceptions than what I could have ever gained by the capitalize-checking feature. I agree. And then there are abbreviations like "i.e." - no capitalization after the period. And there are file names and programming language constructs with periods. . . And all the other things autocorrection gets wrong. In Scandinavian languages, you're not supposed to capitalize the word "i" (it means "in"). I have lost count of all the papers I have read with miscapitalized "i". It is not as if it is hard to hit the shift key now and then. And we usually know about our "common mistakes" and look for them. Absurdity done by word processors is more tricky. Especially when it can't be fixed because the stupid thing keeps re-applying a wrong fix. :-( I hope LyX won't fall into that trap. Helge Hafting
Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters
Hello everybody, I am working with Lyx 1.6.3 on Windows xp (sp3) and I have a question about punctuation. In short, I spend most of my working time with softwares like Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Writer and I am wondering if is it possible, with Lyx, to have the first letter always in capital letters (namely capitalised) after a punctuation which requires that. At least in Italian, French, English after a punctuation such as ? ! . (period) etc, you very often need to have the first letter of the new sentence capitalised. For instance, with OpenOffice Writer when I type: are you all right? Yes, I am the Y of yes is automatically changed in capital letter (that is, Yes instead of yes) . On the contrary, with Lyx I have to change the first letter manually every time. Obviously, I know it is not a great deal :-) Nevertheless, in my opinion, when you have to type a lot of text every day this option is really useful because it saves you a lot of time (you don't have to press the button Shift to make the first letter capitalised). To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same behaviour about capital letters as Writer or Word? Best regards, Silvio
Re: Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters
To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same behaviour about capital letters as Writer or Word? I think not. However, you're right, a auto-correction tool should be implemented, and also for DOuble capitals and similar mistakes. I think they're working in it with the inline spellchecker project.
Re: Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:02:39 + (GMT) silvio grosso grossosil...@yahoo.it wrote: To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same behaviour about capital letters as Writer or Word? Do think about this. I have noticed the 'feature' in some editors, then noticed that those programs also want to be intelligent and, for example don't permit 'MHz' (they consider the only the first letter should be capitalized). Then, to solve this, they have an exception table where you can put those. I ended up losing more time administering the exceptions than what I could have ever gained by the capitalize-checking feature. John
Re: Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters
To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same behaviour about capital letters as Writer or Word? Do think about this. I have noticed the 'feature' in some editors, then noticed that those programs also want to be intelligent and, for example don't permit 'MHz' (they consider the only the first letter should be capitalized). Then, to solve this, they have an exception table where you can put those. I ended up losing more time administering the exceptions than what I could have ever gained by the capitalize-checking feature. John Yes. Is a battle against a ghost in the computer that make changes without notice. A nightmare. Marcelo ¡Viví la mejor experiencia en la web! Descargá gratis el nuevo Internet Explorer 8 http://downloads.yahoo.com/ieak8/?l=ar
Re: Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters
I concur, I usually end up turning OFF auto-correct. If someone is looking for a feature like this, maybe have it along the lines of the inline spell checker and have squiggles marking potentially bad words. Marcelo Acuña wrote: To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same behaviour about capital letters as Writer or Word? Do think about this. I have noticed the 'feature' in some editors, then noticed that those programs also want to be intelligent and, for example don't permit 'MHz' (they consider the only the first letter should be capitalized). Then, to solve this, they have an exception table where you can put those. I ended up losing more time administering the exceptions than what I could have ever gained by the capitalize-checking feature. John Yes. Is a battle against a ghost in the computer that make changes without notice. A nightmare. Marcelo ¡Viví la mejor experiencia en la web! Descargá gratis el nuevo Internet Explorer 8 http://downloads.yahoo.com/ieak8/?l=ar -- LyX: http://www.lyx.org/ OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org/ Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/ Scribus: http://www.scribus.net/ GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/ PDF: http://www.pdfforge.org/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters
Hello everybody, I am working with Lyx 1.6.3 on Windows xp (sp3) and I have a question about punctuation. In short, I spend most of my working time with softwares like Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Writer and I am wondering if is it possible, with Lyx, to have the first letter always in capital letters (namely capitalised) after a punctuation which requires that. At least in Italian, French, English after a punctuation such as ? ! . (period) etc, you very often need to have the first letter of the new sentence capitalised. For instance, with OpenOffice Writer when I type: are you all right? Yes, I am the Y of yes is automatically changed in capital letter (that is, Yes instead of yes) . On the contrary, with Lyx I have to change the first letter manually every time. Obviously, I know it is not a great deal :-) Nevertheless, in my opinion, when you have to type a lot of text every day this option is really useful because it saves you a lot of time (you don't have to press the button Shift to make the first letter capitalised). To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same behaviour about capital letters as Writer or Word? Best regards, Silvio
Re: Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters
To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same behaviour about capital letters as Writer or Word? I think not. However, you're right, a auto-correction tool should be implemented, and also for DOuble capitals and similar mistakes. I think they're working in it with the inline spellchecker project.
Re: Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:02:39 + (GMT) silvio grosso grossosil...@yahoo.it wrote: To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same behaviour about capital letters as Writer or Word? Do think about this. I have noticed the 'feature' in some editors, then noticed that those programs also want to be intelligent and, for example don't permit 'MHz' (they consider the only the first letter should be capitalized). Then, to solve this, they have an exception table where you can put those. I ended up losing more time administering the exceptions than what I could have ever gained by the capitalize-checking feature. John
Re: Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters
To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same behaviour about capital letters as Writer or Word? Do think about this. I have noticed the 'feature' in some editors, then noticed that those programs also want to be intelligent and, for example don't permit 'MHz' (they consider the only the first letter should be capitalized). Then, to solve this, they have an exception table where you can put those. I ended up losing more time administering the exceptions than what I could have ever gained by the capitalize-checking feature. John Yes. Is a battle against a ghost in the computer that make changes without notice. A nightmare. Marcelo ¡Viví la mejor experiencia en la web! Descargá gratis el nuevo Internet Explorer 8 http://downloads.yahoo.com/ieak8/?l=ar
Re: Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters
I concur, I usually end up turning OFF auto-correct. If someone is looking for a feature like this, maybe have it along the lines of the inline spell checker and have squiggles marking potentially bad words. Marcelo Acuña wrote: To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same behaviour about capital letters as Writer or Word? Do think about this. I have noticed the 'feature' in some editors, then noticed that those programs also want to be intelligent and, for example don't permit 'MHz' (they consider the only the first letter should be capitalized). Then, to solve this, they have an exception table where you can put those. I ended up losing more time administering the exceptions than what I could have ever gained by the capitalize-checking feature. John Yes. Is a battle against a ghost in the computer that make changes without notice. A nightmare. Marcelo ¡Viví la mejor experiencia en la web! Descargá gratis el nuevo Internet Explorer 8 http://downloads.yahoo.com/ieak8/?l=ar -- LyX: http://www.lyx.org/ OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org/ Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/ Scribus: http://www.scribus.net/ GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/ PDF: http://www.pdfforge.org/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters
Hello everybody, I am working with Lyx 1.6.3 on Windows xp (sp3) and I have a question about punctuation. In short, I spend most of my working time with softwares like Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Writer and I am wondering if is it possible, with Lyx, to have the first letter always in capital letters (namely capitalised) after a punctuation which "requires" that. At least in Italian, French, English after a punctuation such as ? ! . (period) etc, you very often need to have the first letter of the new sentence capitalised. For instance, with OpenOffice Writer when I type: "are you all right? Yes, I am" the Y of yes is automatically changed in capital letter (that is, Yes instead of yes) . On the contrary, with Lyx I have to change the first letter manually every time. Obviously, I know it is not a great deal :-) Nevertheless, in my opinion, when you have to type a lot of text every day this option is really useful because it saves you a lot of time (you don't have to press the button Shift to make the first letter capitalised). To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same behaviour about capital letters as Writer or Word? Best regards, Silvio
Re: Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters
> To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same behaviour about capital letters as Writer or Word? I think not. However, you're right, a auto-correction tool should be implemented, and also for DOuble capitals and similar mistakes. I think they're working in it with the inline spellchecker project.
Re: Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:02:39 + (GMT) silvio grossowrote: > To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same behaviour about > capital letters as Writer or Word? Do think about this. I have noticed the 'feature' in some editors, then noticed that those programs also want to be intelligent and, for example don't permit 'MHz' (they consider the only the first letter should be capitalized). Then, to solve this, they have an exception table where you can put those. I ended up losing more time administering the exceptions than what I could have ever gained by the capitalize-checking feature. John
Re: Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters
> > To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same > behaviour about > > capital letters as Writer or Word? > > Do think about this. I have noticed the 'feature' in some > editors, then > noticed that those programs also want to be intelligent > and, for example > don't permit 'MHz' (they consider the only the first letter > should be > capitalized). Then, to solve this, they have an exception > table where you > can put those. > > I ended up losing more time administering the exceptions > than what I > could have ever gained by the capitalize-checking feature. > > John > Yes. Is a battle against a ghost in the computer that make changes without notice. A nightmare. Marcelo ¡Viví la mejor experiencia en la web! Descargá gratis el nuevo Internet Explorer 8 http://downloads.yahoo.com/ieak8/?l=ar
Re: Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters
I concur, I usually end up turning OFF auto-correct. If someone is looking for a feature like this, maybe have it along the lines of the inline spell checker and have squiggles marking potentially bad words. Marcelo Acuña wrote: >>> To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same >>> >> behaviour about >> >>> capital letters as Writer or Word? >>> >> Do think about this. I have noticed the 'feature' in some >> editors, then >> noticed that those programs also want to be intelligent >> and, for example >> don't permit 'MHz' (they consider the only the first letter >> should be >> capitalized). Then, to solve this, they have an exception >> table where you >> can put those. >> >> I ended up losing more time administering the exceptions >> than what I >> could have ever gained by the capitalize-checking feature. >> >> John >> >> > Yes. Is a battle against a ghost in the computer that make changes without > notice. A nightmare. > Marcelo > > > > > ¡Viví la mejor experiencia en la web! > Descargá gratis el nuevo Internet Explorer 8 > http://downloads.yahoo.com/ieak8/?l=ar > -- LyX: http://www.lyx.org/ OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org/ Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/ Scribus: http://www.scribus.net/ GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/ PDF: http://www.pdfforge.org/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature