On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Lagaffe Gaston
<maboiteapourr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello Lyx people,
>
> There is an annoying behavior in my Lyx spell checking utility (for French
> language), I'd like to be able to change it or make a suggestion to 
> developers.
> This spell checking utility doesn't ignore words beginning with an upper case,
> so all proper nouns are marked as incorrect.
>
>
> Another problematic behavior is that it doesn't consider composed words
> (separated with an "-") as one. So the prepositions used in composed words are
> marked as incorrect (example : socio in socio-technique, etc).
>
> With other minor flaws, it makes that 9 on 10 "errors" detected by this 
> utility
> are false positives, making spell checking inefficient, time-wasting and
> irritating.
>
> And obviously, it would be a great feature to have on-the-fly spell checking,
> highlighting incorrect words when written.
>
LyX 2.0 does this.
Liviu


> I don't know exactly how does work the spell checking system and dictionary in
> Lyx, perhaps it is common for various software on my OS, if it is an 
> independent
> piece of software please redirect me to the right project and people.
>
> -----
> My configuration : I'm running Lyx 1.6.7 in Ubuntu 10.10. In the Lyx settings,
> the "enchant" dictionary is selected.
>
> -----
>
> Except this problem, Lyx is an outstanding software for writing academic 
> papers
> and it has been a pleasure to write since I switched from my old WYSIWYG
> program, so thanks for that !
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> GL
>
>



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