Diego Queiroz wrote: > About the problem Jürgen Spitzmüller is complaining, I really don't see the > problem. The spellchecker usually holds all nouns (proper or not) that are > common in a language.
I'm not complaining. I was opposing to the idea to let LyX pass upcased letter downcased to the speller in order to make them recognized as "correct" (this is at least how I understood the proposal). > Guillaume is a common name in France, but it is not in Brazil, for > example. So it is natural if a portuguese spellchecker mark this name as > wrong. Acronyms and some company names are naturally always marked as > wrong, specially because they need to be double checked. If that word is > important, you must include it on your personal dictionary. Even the MS > Word > spellchecker (that is currently the most mature spellchecker IMO), you > experience very same behavior (actually, it ignore capitalized words by > default, but this can be changed). > > Therefore, I am against the idea of "if a word begins with an uppercase > letter, treat it as correct". This is wrong, Exactly my words. You must have misread my elaborations completely. > and I'm almost sure this is > not desired in any language. Well, in English, there is Title Casing in some contexts. Jürgen
