Liviu Andronic wrote: > > 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.
The spell checker itself (not LyX) should care for this, since this is language-dependant. In German, casing is orthographically constrained, so it matters if a word is upcaed or not (except at the beginning of a sentence). > > 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. If you use hunspell, that is. Jürgen
