Re: SV: A more effective error correction mechanism

[John White]

Does this revisit the old issue re whether Lyx is or is not a word processor?

John

On Thursday, September 2, 2021 5:39:13 AM PDT Daniel wrote:
> I tend to agree with Helge on this particular feature. But generally
> find it great when people mention features in other word processors they
> find helpful. So, thanks paolo.
> 
> On 02/09/2021 10:35, Helge Hafting wrote:
> >>The editor in gmail underlines in red words that cannot be founf in its
> >>vocabulary, as  lyx does, but it differs in correction, carried out
> >>without
> >>right clicking: just left clicking on that word pops up the list of 1)
> >>alternatives and 2) possible splitting
> >>
> > Please no popup on a left click.  The left click is indeed for
> > positioning the cursor. I have a greater vocabulary than the wordlist,
> > as do anybody who work in a specialist field or deal with names of
> > foreigners. So there are plenty of words underlined in red, and I do NOT
> > want a menu popping up whenever I navigate close to such words!
> > 
> > 
> > LyX already have too many unwanted menus accidentally popping up when
> > positioning the cursor into some complicated nesting of minipages &
> > images & hfills inside a float. Let's not have that inconvenience in
> > plain text too – plain text is a large part of all writing.
> > 
> > 
> > Also, I don't see why right-clicking is harder than left-clicking? Sure,
> > we use the left click more, but the right is just as easy? And with a
> > right click, I get a list with possible corrections, some possible
> > splits, and the option of adding this word to the lists.
> > 
> > 
> > *Fra:* lyx-users  på vegne av paolo m.
> > 
> > *Sendt:* torsdag 29. juli 2021 21:14:21
> > *Til:* lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> > *Emne:* A more effective error correction mechanism
> > The editor in gmail underlines in red words that cannot be founf in its
> > vocabulary, as  lyx does, but it differs in correction, carried out
> > without
> > right clicking: just left clicking on that word pops up the list of 1)
> > alternatives and 2) possible splitting
> > Then
> > - if you click on any item of that list, word is corrected accordingly.
> > Left
> > clicking on a word not underlined does not trigger any popups, just places
> > the cursor.
> > - if you delete the list of the alternatives, that word is included in you
> > personal dictionary
> > 
> > Please can anyone check this out?
> > I think it would be convenient to implement that mechanism in lyx.
> > 
> > thank you
> > 
> > pol



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Re: SV: A more effective error correction mechanism

[Daniel]

On 02/09/2021 14:53, John White wrote:

Does this revisit the old issue re whether Lyx is or is not a word processor?

John

On Thursday, September 2, 2021 5:39:13 AM PDT Daniel wrote:

I tend to agree with Helge on this particular feature. But generally
find it great when people mention features in other word processors they
find helpful. So, thanks paolo.


Sorry, forgot about bottom posting...

Word processor seems to be a very broad category if Wikipedia is to be
trusted on this point (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_processor,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_word_processors), but no, I don't
think the point I made hinges on whether LyX is a word processor or not.
LyX is in many (but surely not all) aspects close enough to standard
examples such as Google Docs, Pages, Word, and Writer, so that many
features these applications have are also similarly implemented in LyX
or may be worth implementing.

Daniel
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Re: SV: A more effective error correction mechanism

[Daniel]

I tend to agree with Helge on this particular feature. But generally 
find it great when people mention features in other word processors they 
find helpful. So, thanks paolo.


On 02/09/2021 10:35, Helge Hafting wrote:

The editor in gmail underlines in red words that cannot be founf in its
vocabulary, as  lyx does, but it differs in correction, carried out without 
right clicking: just left clicking on that word pops up the list of 1) 
alternatives and 2) possible splitting



Please no popup on a left click.  The left click is indeed for 
positioning the cursor. I have a greater vocabulary than the wordlist, 
as do anybody who work in a specialist field or deal with names of 
foreigners. So there are plenty of words underlined in red, and I do NOT 
want a menu popping up whenever I navigate close to such words!



LyX already have too many unwanted menus accidentally popping up when 
positioning the cursor into some complicated nesting of minipages & 
images & hfills inside a float. Let's not have that inconvenience in 
plain text too – plain text is a large part of all writing.



Also, I don't see why right-clicking is harder than left-clicking? Sure, 
we use the left click more, but the right is just as easy? And with a 
right click, I get a list with possible corrections, some possible 
splits, and the option of adding this word to the lists.



*Fra:* lyx-users  på vegne av paolo m. 


*Sendt:* torsdag 29. juli 2021 21:14:21
*Til:* lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
*Emne:* A more effective error correction mechanism
The editor in gmail underlines in red words that cannot be founf in its
vocabulary, as  lyx does, but it differs in correction, carried out without
right clicking: just left clicking on that word pops up the list of 1)
alternatives and 2) possible splitting
Then
- if you click on any item of that list, word is corrected accordingly. 
Left

clicking on a word not underlined does not trigger any popups, just places
the cursor.
- if you delete the list of the alternatives, that word is included in you
personal dictionary

Please can anyone check this out?
I think it would be convenient to implement that mechanism in lyx.

thank you

pol

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SV: A more effective error correction mechanism

[Helge Hafting]

>The editor in gmail underlines in red words that cannot be founf in its
>vocabulary, as  lyx does, but it differs in correction, carried out without
>right clicking: just left clicking on that word pops up the list of 1)
>alternatives and 2) possible splitting


Please no popup on a left click.  The left click is indeed for positioning the 
cursor. I have a greater vocabulary than the wordlist, as do anybody who work 
in a specialist field or deal with names of foreigners. So there are plenty of 
words underlined in red, and I do NOT want a menu popping up whenever I 
navigate close to such words!


LyX already have too many unwanted menus accidentally popping up when 
positioning the cursor into some complicated nesting of minipages & images & 
hfills inside a float. Let's not have that inconvenience in plain text too – 
plain text is a large part of all writing.


Also, I don't see why right-clicking is harder than left-clicking? Sure, we use 
the left click more, but the right is just as easy? And with a right click, I 
get a list with possible corrections, some possible splits, and the option of 
adding this word to the lists.


Fra: lyx-users  på vegne av paolo m. 

Sendt: torsdag 29. juli 2021 21:14:21
Til: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Emne: A more effective error correction mechanism

The editor in gmail underlines in red words that cannot be founf in its
vocabulary, as  lyx does, but it differs in correction, carried out without
right clicking: just left clicking on that word pops up the list of 1)
alternatives and 2) possible splitting
Then
- if you click on any item of that list, word is corrected accordingly. Left
clicking on a word not underlined does not trigger any popups, just places
the cursor.
- if you delete the list of the alternatives, that word is included in you
personal dictionary

Please can anyone check this out?
I think it would be convenient to implement that mechanism in lyx.

thank you

pol

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