Re: For some reason aspell via lyx doesn't 'understand single quotes'...

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
 Is there a reason why LyX's implementation of aspell chokes on ' characters
 used as single quotes???

Because they are no single quotes, but apostrophes. In order to insert single 
quotes, hit Alt-.

Jürgen

Re: For some reason aspell via lyx doesn't 'understand single quotes'...

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org writes:

 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
 Is there a reason why LyX's implementation of aspell chokes on ' characters
 used as single quotes???

 Because they are no single quotes, but apostrophes. In order to insert single 
 quotes, hit Alt-.

I do not have a LyX build handy, but it used to be the case (maybe still
in 1.6) that don't was not spelled correctly (and it is partly my
fault).

JMarc

Re: For some reason aspell via lyx doesn't 'understand single quotes'...

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
 I do not have a LyX build handy, but it used to be the case (maybe still
 in 1.6) that don't was not spelled correctly (and it is partly my
 fault).

Works here (with current branch).

Jürgen

Re: For some reason aspell via lyx doesn't 'understand single quotes'...

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

It would appear that on Apr 16, Jürgen Spitzmüller did say:

 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
  Is there a reason why LyX's implementation of aspell chokes on ' characters
  used as single quotes???
 
 Because they are no single quotes, but apostrophes. In order to insert single 
 quotes, hit Alt-.

OK, I guess that makes sense. I guess that the reason aspell ignores
apostrophes when used for single quotes in a text file is probably
because the Alt- shortcut doesn't work in most text editors, and
aspell's author or maintainer decided to use some logic to treat them
as single quotes when they were obviously so used? 

Thank you for telling me how to get around this... I think I'm going
to have to re-edit a few files to replace some misused apostrophes...

Though being more familiar with the bash command line than with formal
writing (rules?) I'm not surprised that I thought they were single
quotes.

Thanks for setting me straight.

-- 
|^^^   ^^^   Guess I just didn't know.
|o   o Joseph (the Wordy) Philbrook
|^  J(tWdy)P
|   ___ jtw...@ttlc.net

   sigh

Re: For some reason aspell via lyx doesn't 'understand single quotes'...

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
 Is there a reason why LyX's implementation of aspell chokes on ' characters
 used as single quotes???

Because they are no single quotes, but apostrophes. In order to insert single 
quotes, hit Alt-.

Jürgen

Re: For some reason aspell via lyx doesn't 'understand single quotes'...

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org writes:

 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
 Is there a reason why LyX's implementation of aspell chokes on ' characters
 used as single quotes???

 Because they are no single quotes, but apostrophes. In order to insert single 
 quotes, hit Alt-.

I do not have a LyX build handy, but it used to be the case (maybe still
in 1.6) that don't was not spelled correctly (and it is partly my
fault).

JMarc

Re: For some reason aspell via lyx doesn't 'understand single quotes'...

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
 I do not have a LyX build handy, but it used to be the case (maybe still
 in 1.6) that don't was not spelled correctly (and it is partly my
 fault).

Works here (with current branch).

Jürgen

Re: For some reason aspell via lyx doesn't 'understand single quotes'...

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

It would appear that on Apr 16, Jürgen Spitzmüller did say:

 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
  Is there a reason why LyX's implementation of aspell chokes on ' characters
  used as single quotes???
 
 Because they are no single quotes, but apostrophes. In order to insert single 
 quotes, hit Alt-.

OK, I guess that makes sense. I guess that the reason aspell ignores
apostrophes when used for single quotes in a text file is probably
because the Alt- shortcut doesn't work in most text editors, and
aspell's author or maintainer decided to use some logic to treat them
as single quotes when they were obviously so used? 

Thank you for telling me how to get around this... I think I'm going
to have to re-edit a few files to replace some misused apostrophes...

Though being more familiar with the bash command line than with formal
writing (rules?) I'm not surprised that I thought they were single
quotes.

Thanks for setting me straight.

-- 
|^^^   ^^^   Guess I just didn't know.
|o   o Joseph (the Wordy) Philbrook
|^  J(tWdy)P
|   ___ jtw...@ttlc.net

   sigh

Re: For some reason aspell via lyx doesn't 'understand single quotes'...

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> Is there a reason why LyX's implementation of aspell chokes on ' characters
> used as single quotes???

Because they are no single quotes, but apostrophes. In order to insert single 
quotes, hit Alt-".

Jürgen

Re: For some reason aspell via lyx doesn't 'understand single quotes'...

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Jürgen Spitzmüller  writes:

> Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
>> Is there a reason why LyX's implementation of aspell chokes on ' characters
>> used as single quotes???
>
> Because they are no single quotes, but apostrophes. In order to insert single 
> quotes, hit Alt-".

I do not have a LyX build handy, but it used to be the case (maybe still
in 1.6) that "don't" was not spelled correctly (and it is partly my
fault).

JMarc

Re: For some reason aspell via lyx doesn't 'understand single quotes'...

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> I do not have a LyX build handy, but it used to be the case (maybe still
> in 1.6) that "don't" was not spelled correctly (and it is partly my
> fault).

Works here (with current branch).

Jürgen

Re: For some reason aspell via lyx doesn't 'understand single quotes'...

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

It would appear that on Apr 16, Jürgen Spitzmüller did say:

> Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> > Is there a reason why LyX's implementation of aspell chokes on ' characters
> > used as single quotes???
> 
> Because they are no single quotes, but apostrophes. In order to insert single 
> quotes, hit Alt-".

OK, I guess that makes sense. I guess that the reason aspell ignores
"apostrophes" when used for single quotes in a text file is probably
because the Alt-" shortcut doesn't work in most text editors, and
aspell's author or maintainer decided to use some logic to treat them
as single quotes when they were obviously so used? 

Thank you for telling me how to get around this... I think I'm going
to have to re-edit a few files to replace some misused apostrophes...

Though being more familiar with the bash command line than with formal
writing ("rules"?) I'm not surprised that I thought they were single
quotes.

Thanks for setting me straight.

-- 
|^^^   ^^^   Guess I just didn't know.
|Joseph (the Wordy) Philbrook
|^  J(tWdy)P
|   ___