Re: auto fixing mispelled words

[Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)]

On 11/5/18 12:31 AM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote:
El lun., 5 nov. 2018 a las 0:53, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best 
Daniel of the bunch) (>) escribió:


On 11/4/18 5:08 AM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote:
 >
 > Sorry for jumping into the discussion, but I think some people
here
 > are missing the real point of the problem
 >
 >> Is that mistake a matter of 'learning'?
 >
 > Yes, unequivocally.
 >
 > Not necessarily. There are several forms of mild dyslexia in
which the
 > person swaps letters or even "fingers" (typing an "o" instead
of an
 > "a," for example).

Dyslexia is a _learning_ disability.  Further, there is a body of
research about how to _learn_ to overcome it.  Please have coherent
foundation before proceeding in the discussion.

OK, if don't like that part of the discussion, what about the second 
part of what I've said? Think of a chemists writing about one of those 
substances with kilometric names: a substitution table that changes a 
few, carefully chosen characters into the full name could be useful. 
If then someone wants to use that feature to also correct typos, it's 
their choice. And yes, that can be done with a search & replace, but a 
substitution table is something you do only once.


I noted in my very first reply to the fellow who proposed the feature 
that he should recognize that it weren't peculiarly limited to 
correcting misspellings.


The proposed feature  would involve giving-over resources to 
development and then resources of each user's computer to support the 
additional code.  The marginal benefit is that a small share of users 
(your hypothetical chemists &alii) neither have to use the 
find-and-replace feature already available, nor write and use a 
_simple_ file filter.


And please, calm down, nobody is mad at you, there is no need for you 
to be mad at anyone else that disagree with you.


The remarks to which I objected in my previous message are not made 
any less foolish by my being in one mood or another.  So, please, 
don't fall back on insults that cannot be proved or disproved.

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

[Ricardo Berlasso]

El lun., 5 nov. 2018 a las 0:53, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of
the bunch) () escribió:

> On 11/4/18 5:08 AM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote:
> >
> > Sorry for jumping into the discussion, but I think some people here
> > are missing the real point of the problem
> >
> >> Is that mistake a matter of 'learning'?
> >
> > Yes, unequivocally.
> >
> > Not necessarily. There are several forms of mild dyslexia in which the
> > person swaps letters or even "fingers" (typing an "o" instead of an
> > "a," for example).
>
> Dyslexia is a _learning_ disability.  Further, there is a body of
> research about how to _learn_ to overcome it.  Please have coherent
> foundation before proceeding in the discussion.
>
>
OK, if don't like that part of the discussion, what about the second part
of what I've said? Think of a chemists writing about one of those
substances with kilometric names: a substitution table that changes a few,
carefully chosen characters into the full name could be useful. If then
someone wants to use that feature to also correct typos, it's their choice.
And yes, that can be done with a search & replace, but a substitution table
is something you do only once.

And please, calm down, nobody is mad at you, there is no need for you to be
mad at anyone else that disagree with you.

Regards,
Ricardo

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

[Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)]

On 11/4/18 4:55 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


Le 04/11/2018 à 14:26, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the
bunch) a écrit :
I think we have to calm down here. 


I doubt that you should inject your guesses about the moods of others.


As you prefer.


It is about a proposed feature. FWIW, I
do some of these typos, but I am not sure that I'd like a program to
second guess me.


The feature as proposed would not second-guess anyone, as the idea was 
for the user to assemble a list of substitutions.  And one of my points 
is that the typical user, in the act of assembling such a list, would by 
learning render it redundant.


So you advocate to implement the feature so that people learn to not
need it?


No.  I did not and do not advocate implementing the feature.  But my 
first allegiance is to the truth; so, when you mischaracterized it as 
second-guessing, I explained otherwise.  If you're not prepared for 
honest discourse, then please refrain from reading or replying to my 
messages.


A feature that actually second-guessed users would be intolerable for 
most or all of the Linux/BSD group, though it might be embraced by a 
share of Windows and Mac folk.


I think you are injecting guesses here about what people think according
to the OS they choose/have to use.


It's not merely a _guess_.  The interfaces of Windows and of MacOS, 
and of the most popular applications run under those operating systems 
involve a lot of second-guessing of the users.  I certainly did not 
claim that all Windows or Mac users like being second-guessed; but 
there'd be little or no second-guessing in those environments if there 
weren't a substantial share of users who like being second-guessed.

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 04/11/2018 à 14:26, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the 
bunch) a écrit :
I think we have to calm down here. 


I doubt that you should inject your guesses about the moods of others.


As you prefer.


It is about a proposed feature. FWIW, I
do some of these typos, but I am not sure that I'd like a program to
second guess me.


The feature as proposed would not second-guess anyone, as the idea was 
for the user to assemble a list of substitutions.  And one of my points 
is that the typical user, in the act of assembling such a list, would by 
learning render it redundant.


So you advocate to implement the feature so that people learn to not 
need it?


A feature that actually second-guessed users would be intolerable for 
most or all of the Linux/BSD group, though it might be embraced by a 
share of Windows and Mac folk.


I think you are injecting guesses here about what people think according 
to the OS they choose/have to use.


JMarc

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

[Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)]

On 11/4/18 3:57 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


Le 04/11/2018 à 13:52, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the
bunch) a écrit :


Not necessarily. There are several forms of mild dyslexia in which the 
person swaps letters or even "fingers" (typing an "o" instead of an 
"a," for example). 


Dyslexia is a _learning_ disability.  Further, there is a body of
research about how to _learn_ to overcome it.  Please have coherent 
foundation before proceeding in the discussion.


I think we have to calm down here. 


I doubt that you should inject your guesses about the moods of others.


The discussion is not about how people should live there life.


No one proposed that it were.  Rather, from the outset, it has been 
about whether users of LyX should all have a word-processor that will 
relieve some of its users of the costs of learning not to misspell 
some words _consistently_. (The development of such a facility would 
entail costs, and every user would subsequently have that much more 
code stored on his or her device.)


The person who proposed the feature did not properly recognize the 
nature of the need that he were seeking to have met, and so a debate 
has ensued over whether some skills were learned.



It is about a proposed feature. FWIW, I
do some of these typos, but I am not sure that I'd like a program to
second guess me.


The feature as proposed would not second-guess anyone, as the idea was 
for the user to assemble a list of substitutions.  And one of my 
points is that the typical user, in the act of assembling such a list, 
would by learning render it redundant.


A feature that actually second-guessed users would be intolerable for 
most or all of the Linux/BSD group, though it might be embraced by a 
share of Windows and Mac folk.

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 04/11/2018 à 13:52, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the 
bunch) a écrit :
Not necessarily. There are several forms of mild dyslexia in which the 
person swaps letters or even "fingers" (typing an "o" instead of an 
"a," for example). 


Dyslexia is a _learning_ disability.  Further, there is a body of
research about how to _learn_ to overcome it.  Please have coherent 
foundation before proceeding in the discussion.


I think we have to calm down here. The discussion is not about how 
people should live there life. It is about a proposed feature. FWIW, I 
do some of these typos, but I am not sure that I'd like a program to 
second guess me.


JMarc

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

[Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)]

On 11/4/18 5:08 AM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote:


Sorry for jumping into the discussion, but I think some people here 
are missing the real point of the problem



Is that mistake a matter of 'learning'?


Yes, unequivocally.

Not necessarily. There are several forms of mild dyslexia in which the 
person swaps letters or even "fingers" (typing an "o" instead of an 
"a," for example). 


Dyslexia is a _learning_ disability.  Further, there is a body of
research about how to _learn_ to overcome it.  Please have coherent 
foundation before proceeding in the discussion.

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

[Bernt Lie]

I sympathize with those who need auto correction. For myself:
* I'm decent with touch typing
* However, when typing on "cheap" keyboards, I do more mistakes... some 
keyboards may fail to register a key stroke if hit slightly off center

However, I have become very sceptical towards auto correction based on 
experience with Word+Outlook and smartphones...
* Word tries to auto detect language, and does a poor job - resulting in 
numerous problems
* I have tried to tailor make Office auto correction, but my settings often 
have been reset the next time I use the tool, or after upgrades.
* Auto correction may introduce bad mistakes that I sometimes don't see... my 
smartphone once auto-changed the name of an ice cream chain to the Spanish word 
for one-night stand in a communication in Spanish... which was not taken well...
* I often use technical words that are not in the dictionary; auto correction 
would then be disastrous.

So, for me, auto-correction would be a total turn-off unless I could turn it 
off, and *know* that my setting was not changed by "the system".

I would rather live with my few mistakes, than use a system that introduce 
arbitrary mistakes that were not intended.

B

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From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org  on behalf of Ricardo 
Berlasso 
Sent: Sunday, November 4, 2018 2:08:55 PM
To: LyX Users
Subject: Re: auto fixing mispelled words

Sorry for jumping into the discussion, but I think some people here are missing 
the real point of the problem

El dom., 4 nov. 2018 a las 12:47, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of 
the bunch) (mailto:daniel@oeconomist.com>>) 
escribió:
On 11/4/18 1:18 AM, Pol wrote:
>
> Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote:
>
> Yes, a set of specific words to be fixed by rearranging letters.

No.  The computer would not _rearrange_ letters.  It would effect a
string subsitution, oblivious to whether any of the letters in the
replacement string appeared in the original string.

> E.g.  writing quickly it often happens to write 'informazioen' rather than
> ' informazione'.
> Sometimes that word appears correctly on the screen, sometimes it is
> distorted like that, as an anagram of the right word.

It doesn't just happen.  The screen displays what you entered.

> Is that mistake a matter of 'learning'?

Yes, unequivocally.

Not necessarily. There are several forms of mild dyslexia in which the person 
swaps letters or even "fingers" (typing an "o" instead of an "a," for example). 
I know this from experience because I have the problem. And yes, working hard 
and being attentive solves many (not all, mind you) of the "accidents," but 
still... I've been writing in computers almost every day for the last 30 years 
and still have many silly "typos:" in my case it's not a matter of practice.

And that's just a first point. An autocorrect tool can also be useful for 
people without those problems: As a matter of fact, LyX actually perform an 
autocorrect every time it changes two dashes into an en-dash and three into an 
em-dash. Maybe this feature could be generalized. Think of changing the first 
character of a phrase into caps, for example, or setting a substitution pattern 
to change a couple of characters into a symbol or a longer text you need to 
insert several times in the document. It doesn't need to be something fixed (in 
fact, it shouldn't!), just a table that any user can fill at will: first 
column, what you want to substitute, second column, the substitution, and then 
the system perform those changes in real time. LibreOffice has such tool and 
yes, most of the elements in their default table are just a list of stupid 
emojis, but that does not mean the feature is stupid.

Just my two cents!

Regards,
Ricardo




> You mean that i should gain a
> better motor control of my fingers' movements?

Typing is a learned skill, involving multiple processes.  I don't know
(or much care) which process you've not properly learned.

> My guess is that my mind form the mispelled word, while quickly
> writing, because  'informazioen' and ' informazione' are the same, in
> my mind.

In that case, you need to learn otherwise.

> There would be much to say about the meaning of 'learning', but this is
> not the right place to discuss about that. I do not know which aspects
> of learning would be involved here, but i am puzzled about how to
> improve my writing by learning.

If it's truly a matter of your not understanding the difference
between “informazioen” and “informazione”, then you need to look into
how better to learn orthography.

> Anyway, that kind of mispelling happens often. Should i spend years to
> le

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

[Ricardo Berlasso]

Sorry for jumping into the discussion, but I think some people here are
missing the real point of the problem

El dom., 4 nov. 2018 a las 12:47, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel
of the bunch) () escribió:

> On 11/4/18 1:18 AM, Pol wrote:
> >
> > Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote:
> >
> > Yes, a set of specific words to be fixed by rearranging letters.
>
> No.  The computer would not _rearrange_ letters.  It would effect a
> string subsitution, oblivious to whether any of the letters in the
> replacement string appeared in the original string.
>
> > E.g.  writing quickly it often happens to write 'informazioen' rather
> than
> > ' informazione'.
> > Sometimes that word appears correctly on the screen, sometimes it is
> > distorted like that, as an anagram of the right word.
>
> It doesn't just happen.  The screen displays what you entered.
>
> > Is that mistake a matter of 'learning'?
>
> Yes, unequivocally.
>

Not necessarily. There are several forms of mild dyslexia in which the
person swaps letters or even "fingers" (typing an "o" instead of an "a,"
for example). I know this from experience because I have the problem. And
yes, working hard and being attentive solves many (not all, mind you) of
the "accidents," but still... I've been writing in computers almost every
day for the last 30 years and still have many silly "typos:" in my case
it's not a matter of practice.

And that's just a first point. An autocorrect tool can also be useful for
people without those problems: As a matter of fact, LyX actually perform an
autocorrect every time it changes two dashes into an en-dash and three into
an em-dash. Maybe this feature could be generalized. Think of changing the
first character of a phrase into caps, for example, or setting a
substitution pattern to change a couple of characters into a symbol or a
longer text you need to insert several times in the document. It doesn't
need to be something fixed (in fact, it shouldn't!), just a table that any
user can fill at will: first column, what you want to substitute, second
column, the substitution, and then the system perform those changes in real
time. LibreOffice has such tool and yes, most of the elements in their
default table are just a list of stupid emojis, but that does not mean the
feature is stupid.

Just my two cents!

Regards,
Ricardo




>
> > You mean that i should gain a
> > better motor control of my fingers' movements?
>
> Typing is a learned skill, involving multiple processes.  I don't know
> (or much care) which process you've not properly learned.
>
> > My guess is that my mind form the mispelled word, while quickly
> > writing, because  'informazioen' and ' informazione' are the same, in
> > my mind.
>
> In that case, you need to learn otherwise.
>
> > There would be much to say about the meaning of 'learning', but this is
> > not the right place to discuss about that. I do not know which aspects
> > of learning would be involved here, but i am puzzled about how to
> > improve my writing by learning.
>
> If it's truly a matter of your not understanding the difference
> between “informazioen” and “informazione”, then you need to look into
> how better to learn orthography.
>
> > Anyway, that kind of mispelling happens often. Should i spend years to
> > learn, hoping ti improve my typewriting ability?
>
> If necessary.  But most adults wouldn't need years.
>
> > Rather, it would be very convenient to see that kind of mistakes
> > instantly corrected.
>
> I am again very much reminded of Cyril Kornbluth's story.
>
> > Don't you agree?
>
> Obviously I don't agree.  You shouldn't even have asked whether I agree.
>

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

[Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)]

On 11/4/18 1:18 AM, Pol wrote:


Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote:

Yes, a set of specific words to be fixed by rearranging letters.


No.  The computer would not _rearrange_ letters.  It would effect a 
string subsitution, oblivious to whether any of the letters in the 
replacement string appeared in the original string.



E.g.  writing quickly it often happens to write 'informazioen' rather than
' informazione'.
Sometimes that word appears correctly on the screen, sometimes it is
distorted like that, as an anagram of the right word.


It doesn't just happen.  The screen displays what you entered.

Is that mistake a matter of 'learning'? 


Yes, unequivocally.


You mean that i should gain a
better motor control of my fingers' movements? 


Typing is a learned skill, involving multiple processes.  I don't know 
(or much care) which process you've not properly learned.



My guess is that my mind form the mispelled word, while quickly
writing, because  'informazioen' and ' informazione' are the same, in
my mind.


In that case, you need to learn otherwise.


There would be much to say about the meaning of 'learning', but this is
not the right place to discuss about that. I do not know which aspects
of learning would be involved here, but i am puzzled about how to
improve my writing by learning.


If it's truly a matter of your not understanding the difference 
between “informazioen” and “informazione”, then you need to look into 
how better to learn orthography.



Anyway, that kind of mispelling happens often. Should i spend years to
learn, hoping ti improve my typewriting ability?


If necessary.  But most adults wouldn't need years.


Rather, it would be very convenient to see that kind of mistakes
instantly corrected.


I am again very much reminded of Cyril Kornbluth's story.


Don't you agree?


Obviously I don't agree.  You shouldn't even have asked whether I agree.

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

[Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)]

On 11/4/18 1:44 AM, Michael Berger wrote:


Do you think this list is the right place for your continuing dispute?


He's advocating a change to LyX.

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

[Michael Berger]

Do you think this list is the right place for your continuing dispute?

Michael Berger

On 11/4/18 10:18 AM, Pol wrote:

Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote:


On 11/3/18 5:46 AM, paolo m. wrote:

I am not able to 'learn' how not to make typos. Do you?

I learn not to make _specific_ typographical errors, and the facility
that you request would only deal with sets of specific errors.

Yes, a set of specific words to be fixed by rearranging letters.
E.g.  writing quickly it often happens to write 'informazioen' rather than
' informazione'.
Sometimes that word appears correctly on the screen, sometimes it is
distorted like that, as an anagram of the right word.
Is that mistake a matter of 'learning'? You mean that i should gain a
better motor control of my fingers' movements?
My guess is that my mind form the mispelled word, while quickly
writing, because  'informazioen' and ' informazione' are the same, in
my mind.
There would be much to say about the meaning of 'learning', but this is
not the right place to discuss about that. I do not know which aspects
of learning would be involved here, but i am puzzled about how to
improve my writing by learning.
Anyway, that kind of mispelling happens often. Should i spend years to
learn, hoping ti improve my typewriting ability?
Rather, it would be very convenient to see that kind of mistakes
instantly corrected. Don't you agree?

paolo m.


Is is not a matter of learning,

Of course it is.


it is our mind functioning that swaps letter
positions or doubles next letters while quickly writing text lines

Typing isn't an inborn skill; it is something that one learns.
Learning to type a word and learning not to mistype it are the same
thing.


Restoring the correct letters order for each word quickly would be a
great favour to a number of long paper writers.

In the case of a long paper, as opposed to a set of papers, the
facility that you request doesn't offer much that global
find-and-replace doesn't already do.  In either case, you are talking
about working from an assembled list of corrections. (Recall that your
original request involved a list assembled by the user of corrections
to make.)

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

[Pol]

Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote:

> On 11/3/18 5:46 AM, paolo m. wrote:
>> I am not able to 'learn' how not to make typos. Do you?
> 
> I learn not to make _specific_ typographical errors, and the facility
> that you request would only deal with sets of specific errors.

Yes, a set of specific words to be fixed by rearranging letters.
E.g.  writing quickly it often happens to write 'informazioen' rather than 
' informazione'.  
Sometimes that word appears correctly on the screen, sometimes it is 
distorted like that, as an anagram of the right word.  
Is that mistake a matter of 'learning'? You mean that i should gain a 
better motor control of my fingers' movements? 
My guess is that my mind form the mispelled word, while quickly 
writing, because  'informazioen' and ' informazione' are the same, in 
my mind.  
There would be much to say about the meaning of 'learning', but this is 
not the right place to discuss about that. I do not know which aspects 
of learning would be involved here, but i am puzzled about how to 
improve my writing by learning. 
Anyway, that kind of mispelling happens often. Should i spend years to 
learn, hoping ti improve my typewriting ability?
Rather, it would be very convenient to see that kind of mistakes 
instantly corrected. Don't you agree?

paolo m.  

>> Is is not a matter of learning,
> 
> Of course it is.
> 
>> it is our mind functioning that swaps letter
>> positions or doubles next letters while quickly writing text lines
> 
> Typing isn't an inborn skill; it is something that one learns.
> Learning to type a word and learning not to mistype it are the same
> thing.
> 
>> Restoring the correct letters order for each word quickly would be a
>> great favour to a number of long paper writers.
> 
> In the case of a long paper, as opposed to a set of papers, the
> facility that you request doesn't offer much that global
> find-and-replace doesn't already do.  In either case, you are talking
> about working from an assembled list of corrections. (Recall that your
> original request involved a list assembled by the user of corrections
> to make.)

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

[Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)]

On 11/3/18 5:46 AM, paolo m. wrote:


Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote:


You've not answered my actual question.  A feature of the sort that
you propose is not likely to be popular; the vast majority of people
would, in constructing the underlying look-up table, find themselves
learning not to make the mistakes in the first place.


Sorry for my delay, i am not a 'heavy'  news readers user.
I do not know whether that feature would be popular, but it would be
useful for a number of lyx users.
I am not able to 'learn' how not to make typos. Do you?


I learn not to make _specific_ typographical errors, and the facility 
that you request would only deal with sets of specific errors.


Is is not a matter of learning, 


Of course it is.


it is our mind functioning that swaps letter
positions or doubles next letters while quickly writing text lines


Typing isn't an inborn skill; it is something that one learns. 
Learning to type a word and learning not to mistype it are the same 
thing.



Restoring the correct letters order for each word quickly would be a
great favour to a number of long paper writers.


In the case of a long paper, as opposed to a set of papers, the 
facility that you request doesn't offer much that global 
find-and-replace doesn't already do.  In either case, you are talking 
about working from an assembled list of corrections. (Recall that your 
original request involved a list assembled by the user of corrections 
to make.)

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

[paolo m.]

Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote:

> 
> You've not answered my actual question.  A feature of the sort that
> you propose is not likely to be popular; the vast majority of people
> would, in constructing the underlying look-up table, find themselves
> learning not to make the mistakes in the first place.


Sorry for my delay, i am not a 'heavy'  news readers user. 
I do not know whether that feature would be popular, but it would be 
useful for a number of lyx users.
I am not able to 'learn' how not to make typos. Do you?
Is is not a matter of learning, it is our mind functioning that swaps letter 
positions or doubles next letters while quickly writing text lines
Restoring the correct letters order for each word quickly would be a 
great favour to a number of long paper writers.

regards
paolo m. 

 

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

[Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)]

On 10/23/2018 05:41 AM, Pol wrote:


Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote:


On 10/22/2018 04:16 AM, Pol wrote:


A possible improvement of the spellchecker facility: Common, 
typical mispellings made by authors could be istantaneously 
autocorrected by lyx, by checking a suitable list  maintained 
by authors themseves.


But if I know that I never intend to type “satistics” then why would I
still do it so often that the ordinary find-and-replace function
weren't sufficient to fix the occasional lapse?


Only for practicl reasons. It is easier to replace wrong words
automatically.
There are several words that i frequntly type  wronglyi every few lines,


You've not answered my actual question.  A feature of the sort that 
you propose is not likely to be popular; the vast majority of people 
would, in constructing the underlying look-up table, find themselves 
learning not to make the mistakes in the first place.

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 10/22/18 7:16 AM, Pol wrote:

A possible improvement of the spellchecker facility: Common, typical
mispellings made by authors could be istantaneously autocorrected by
lyx, by checking a suitable list  maintained by authors themseves.

p.
   

I would be okay with this, but only if it was "opt in". (I would opt 
out.) However, this seems to be outside the scope of LyX, since LyX 
relies on external spell-checking engines.


Paul

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

[Pol]

Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote:

> On 10/22/2018 04:16 AM, Pol wrote:
>>
>> A possible improvement of the spellchecker facility: Common, 
typical
>> mispellings made by authors could be istantaneously autocorrected 
by
>> lyx, by checking a suitable list  maintained by authors themseves.
> But if I know that I never intend to type “satistics” then why would I
> still do it so often that the ordinary find-and-replace function
> weren't sufficient to fix the occasional lapse?

Only for practicl reasons. It is easier to replace wrong words 
automatically.
There are several words that i frequntly type  wronglyi every few lines, 

p.

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

[Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)]

On 10/22/2018 04:16 AM, Pol wrote:


A possible improvement of the spellchecker facility: Common, typical
mispellings made by authors could be istantaneously autocorrected by
lyx, by checking a suitable list  maintained by authors themseves.


If there is to be a list of substring substitutions automatically to 
be made, then there is no particular reason to confine it to 
misspellings.  If I somehow know that I am always going to intend to 
have typed “watermelon” when I type “giraffe”, or “\sim” when I type 
“\defeq”, then I will want these substitutions made as well.


But if I know that I never intend to type “satistics” then why would I 
still do it so often that the ordinary find-and-replace function 
weren't sufficient to fix the occasional lapse?


And do I really want a wordprocessor as if cynically imagined by Cyril 
M. Kornbluth


  https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51233/51233-h/51233-h.htm

auto fixing mispelled words

[Pol]

A possible improvement of the spellchecker facility: Common, typical 
mispellings made by authors could be istantaneously autocorrected by 
lyx, by checking a suitable list  maintained by authors themseves.

p.