Re: LyX-to-LyX pasting from "English" to "English (USA)" annoyances

I am of the opinion that when a Canadian, Englishman and an American write a paper 2/3 of the time “colour" should be used and 1/3 of the time “color” should be used—sorry, it is early. Hal > On Mar 16, 2018, at 6:10 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: > > Den 20. jan. 2018

Re: LyX-to-LyX pasting from "English" to "English (USA)" annoyances

Den 20. jan. 2018 23:55, skrev Richard Heck: Maybe another form of "paste special" that would just ignore the language? That would probably take care of most of the use cases here. Richard Good idea!  "Edit->Paste (discard language English (USA))" or whatever language the pasted content

Re: LyX-to-LyX pasting from "English" to "English (USA)" annoyances

On Tue, 23 Jan 2018, Scott Kostyshak wrote: Indeed, and it always assumes English it seems. Maybe we should at least have LyX choose a language at random. That might be fun :) Scott, Esperanto or Klingon would be neutral choices. Rich

Re: LyX-to-LyX pasting from "English" to "English (USA)" annoyances

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:45:36PM +, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: > 2018-01-20 23:39 GMT+01:00 Scott Kostyshak : > > > I have a paper where I set the language to "English (USA)". I am not > > normally so patriotic, but I do this to get the conventional quoting > > used in USA

Re: LyX-to-LyX pasting from "English" to "English (USA)" annoyances

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:29:45PM +, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2018-01-22, José Abílio Matos wrote: > > On Saturday, 20 January 2018 22.39.46 WET Scott Kostyshak wrote: > >> Does anyone else run into this annoyance, e.g., with other forms of > >> English, French, German, etc? If not, then I

Re: LyX-to-LyX pasting from "English" to "English (USA)" annoyances

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 11:49:05AM +, José Abílio Matos wrote: > On Saturday, 20 January 2018 22.39.46 WET Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > Does anyone else run into this annoyance, e.g., with other forms of > > English, French, German, etc? If not, then I don't think we should > > change anything.

Re: LyX-to-LyX pasting from "English" to "English (USA)" annoyances

2018-01-20 23:39 GMT+01:00 Scott Kostyshak : > I have a paper where I set the language to "English (USA)". I am not > normally so patriotic, but I do this to get the conventional quoting > used in USA journals where punctuation in the references are inside the > quotation marks,

Re: LyX-to-LyX pasting from "English" to "English (USA)" annoyances

On 2018-01-22, José Abílio Matos wrote: > On Saturday, 20 January 2018 22.39.46 WET Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> Does anyone else run into this annoyance, e.g., with other forms of >> English, French, German, etc? If not, then I don't think we should >> change anything. > I do with the different

Re: LyX-to-LyX pasting from "English" to "English (USA)" annoyances

On Saturday, 20 January 2018 22.39.46 WET Scott Kostyshak wrote: > Does anyone else run into this annoyance, e.g., with other forms of > English, French, German, etc? If not, then I don't think we should > change anything. I do with the different variants of English, sometimes I use the UK

Re: LyX-to-LyX pasting from "English" to "English (USA)" annoyances

On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 09:22:22AM +, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > I think this will be hard to get right. Also language varieties such as > American and Britisch English or Swiss and German German differ in > details (e.g. spelling or hyphenation rules). Changing the language > automatically

Re: LyX-to-LyX pasting from "English" to "English (USA)" annoyances

On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 08:51:25PM +, Cris Fuhrman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 5:39 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > > I do this maneuver enough times that I find it annoying. > > > > I'd map the command to change language text to a hot key (I'm pretty sure I > did this

Re: LyX-to-LyX pasting from "English" to "English (USA)" annoyances

On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 5:39 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > I do this maneuver enough times that I find it annoying. > I'd map the command to change language text to a hot key (I'm pretty sure I did this before with one of the text formatting things I found myself doing often).

Re: LyX-to-LyX pasting from "English" to "English (USA)" annoyances

Am Samstag, den 20.01.2018, 17:39 -0500 schrieb Scott Kostyshak: > The ideal behavior for me would be that whenever I paste text that is > in > language "mylanguage (x)" into a document that has language > "mylanguage > (y)" and no other language, the text would be pasted as > "mylanguage (y)".

Re: LyX-to-LyX pasting from "English" to "English (USA)" annoyances

On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 12:32:41AM +, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jan 2018, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > > If others do find this annoying, perhaps we can think of an improvement. > > The ideal behavior for me would be that whenever I paste text that is in > > language "mylanguage (x)"

Re: LyX-to-LyX pasting from "English" to "English (USA)" annoyances

On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 10:55:28PM +, Richard Heck wrote: > Maybe another form of "paste special" that would just ignore the > language? That would probably take care of most of the use cases here. Yeah that could work. Scott signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: LyX-to-LyX pasting from "English" to "English (USA)" annoyances

On Sat, 20 Jan 2018, Scott Kostyshak wrote: If others do find this annoying, perhaps we can think of an improvement. The ideal behavior for me would be that whenever I paste text that is in language "mylanguage (x)" into a document that has language "mylanguage (y)" and no other language, the

Re: LyX-to-LyX pasting from "English" to "English (USA)" annoyances

On 01/20/2018 05:39 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > I have a paper where I set the language to "English (USA)". I am not > normally so patriotic, but I do this to get the conventional quoting > used in USA journals where punctuation in the references are inside the > quotation marks, e.g., <<"This is