On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <j.spitzmuel...@gmx.de> wrote: > James C. Sutherland wrote: > >> However, I really don't want to have any notion of >> the "language" my documents are written in. > > This will have the consequence that your text, even if monolingually > English, > > * will not be hyphenated correctly > * cannot be spellchecked > > Jürgen >
I ran into this problem last week and brought it up in here. In my case, ERT boxes with NoWeb markup were "broken" by the invisible "lang" changes in the LyX document. I've never noticed any warnings when pasting in these things--I'm running LyX 1.6.2. But I am always pasting into ERT, (NoWeb) and perhaps that has a different appearance to the user. I think instead of listening to what users say, you should try to understand what they mean. I don't think Mr. Sutherland means he wants no notion of language. Rather, he wants LyX NOT to change the language on its own within in a document. If we are editing in a document, and we copy and paste into that document, could you make it so the paste preserves the existing document's language? Then, we could change the language for that pasted part if we needed to, but we would not have all these lang changes. Or the paste could cause some question to the user about "intentionally changing the language." These things are killing me because they show up in ERT and NoWeb documents fail. I understand your point that the documents should have the same language. But it is a bit impractical for me to troll through 100 LyX documents of all different generations to try to figure out how to make the language the same. I just leave language at the LyX default AFAICR, but the people who package these thing for various Linux distributions might fiddle that. Since I have LyX documents from version 1.2 onwards, it may be that lang was specified differently, and when I open the old ones I have literally no idea how LyX sees that file or what it does to update the settings. But I do know for sure that pasting in pieces from those documents causes those unwanted lang markers in the lyx file. Thanks if you can help! Sorry if you don't want to :< pj -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
