On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Jim Oldfield <jim_...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> (4) Words separated by *full stops* (AKA periods) and similar are
>> spell-checked as whole words. For instance cat.Jim is marked wrong.
>> Obviously trailing full stops are allowed, but sometimes they are necessary.
>> For instance "eg", "eg." and "e.g" are wrong, whereas "e.g." is correct.
>
> This is where LyX differs. Full stops are treated like (3), so cat.Jim is
> marked as correct. This is problem for English, because words like "e.g."
> aren't checked properly. My dictionary seems to have individual letters in it,
> so at least "e.g." isn't marked as wrong, but "i.e." is since "i" is wrong
> (with "I" suggested instead).
>
> So here I would prefer LyX to be changed to match Word's behaviour (at least
> to consider internal full stops, even if optionally matching trailing ones is
> too hard).
>
This makes sense. Go.Here.Now should be considered as incorrectly spelled.
Liviu
