On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Lagaffe Gaston <maboiteapourr...@yahoo.com> wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > >> From: Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> >> To: Lagaffe Gaston <maboiteapourr...@yahoo.com> >> Cc: lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org >> Sent: Mon, May 9, 2011 9:37:42 PM >> Subject: Re: Spell checker false positives (nouns with upper case...) >> >> 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 >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Do you know how to read? >> http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm >> http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader >> Do you know how to write? >> http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail >> > > Hello, > > I've tested Lyx 2.0 on another computer running Debian Testing. The on-the-fly > spell checking worked, that is a welcomed new feature. However, there is still > this problem with proper nouns starting with an upper case that are detected > as > incorrect in any language (english, french...). I'd like them to be ignored by > the spell checker utility, in order to avoid a large number of false > positives. > This should be less of an issue with on-the-fly spell checking.
But have you tried adding the words to the personal dictionary? Also, unless I'm mistaken, in the examples you gave if you put imdb in lower case it would still be identified as misspelled. If you put Hello it won't be misspelled. So I'm not sure where the problem is? Otherwise, have you tried hunspell? (It doesn't work here on Xubuntu.) Liviu > See attached for examples. > > I've noticed that the problem with uppercase names is not only with Lyx, but > also for other programs in Debian Testing as Gedit, Pidgin, Bluefish that > doesn't ignore those words... They all seem to use enchant throught a > libenchant > library, which redirects to the aspell utility and its dictionaries. > > Configuration : running Lyx 2.0.0-1 on Debian Testing (Lyx installed from the > Debian repositories, updated today), Enchant dictionary selected in the > preferences dialog. Lyx package depends on package libenchant1c2a, which > depends > on libaspell15, which depends on aspell with aspell-en and aspell-fr packages > installed. > > Best regards, > > GL > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
