On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Georg Baum <georg.b...@post.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > Richard Heck wrote: > >> I wouldn't object to enabling it by default in 2.1. If people felt we >> shouldn't >> change how existing installs work, then it would be trivial to add >> something to prefs2prefs to set it as off for people who are upgrading >> from 2.0. Seems quite sensible, really. > > IMHO this is not an issue of old vs. new users. Continous spell checking can > be a very useful feature, but it also can get in the way and distract from > the main task in early phases of text production, as Rainer wrote. Another > case where it hurts is if you have many special terms which are not in the > dictionary, and you are quite good at spelling anyway. I'd prefer to keep > the default off, but if the majority wants it on I would not object.
Note that this discussion is related to the discussion of the toolbar button: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8589 You describe the same use case that Liviu describes. I don't understand what the advantage of toggling continuous spellcheck is over using normal spellcheck for this workflow. If one doesn't use continuous spellcheck when writing, then it is not really "continuous" spellcheck anymore. I now have no opinion on this. (Actually my opinion is that it should be the default if the majority of users use it and disabled if the majority of users do not use it. But we have no way of knowing which is true.) Scott
