Lagaffe Gaston wrote:
> 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. 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.

Then you should clearly drop a request to the enchant/aspell developers, not 
LyX.

As said in a previous post, this is (a) language-dependent (in German, your 
requested behaviour would be wrong) and (b) a problem of the speller backend, 
not LyX.

Jürgen

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