-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 25/03/13 22:44, Nico Williams wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Georg Baum <georg.b...@post.rwth-aachen.de> >> wrote: >>> Scott Kostyshak wrote: >>> >>>> 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 agree that toggling the button frequently while working on one document >>> does not make >>> sense. However: Assume you are drafting a project proposal and want to >>> concentrate on the >>> structure. You disable continous spell check for that. Later you switch to >>> another document >>> for fine tuning. In that situation you want continous spell check, and a >>> toolbar button >>> makes your life easier. >> >> Ah, this is a good point. Part of me thinks that in this case it should be a >> document >> setting. But that doesn't make much sense. OK, I'm sold. > > Actually, this makes me think that we need some additional features: > > - dictionary embedded in .lyx (some docs make extensive use of words that > aren't really and > shouldn't be used in other contexts)
+1 - would be very useful. > > - continuous spellcheck setting should be optionally per-document +1 - this would make much sense. Actually, this goes towards having different profiles for settings - drafting, finalizing, reviewing, ... for which several settings might be different (e.g. show pictures, preview maths mode, track changes, ...). I would be a bloat of the lyx file format if all settings would be included, but to add a "settings profile" per document basis, would make much sense. Additional advantage: this profile somehow could also be used for adding optional aspects in the preamble, e.g. watermark in draft mode (like branche in the preamble. > > In the meantime, please turn continuous spellcheck on by default. It's too > late to improve my > life (I now know about the feature, so I've enabled it), but we're talking > about gaining new > users and their love. Ok - +1 Yes - and possibly open, after each update, the important changes automatically (like the default lyx document opened on new installs) Cheers, Rainer > > Nico -- > - -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRUWnTAAoJENvXNx4PUvmC7/wIAK4wPDYsttne37OSE9xfVdMe tT4ywmGkEB+xLwtx447UPfPKgQqKhhSkTA86wAglDRvLcTkoX6JZDVQ9vo/xHeEp /7y8CiMinLs7OESZJoKDQTRLr5vVFywcVwWQKytinZvz1e31zCSBrn1mQ/B8T/MR L2KB2Abkja595MSNw97OYnMA641JEluODWfR6lfA43OlW3uZ/4Vbjup7LHsILNRC YucDvJFkUPcAmOeGzk2JE+I1pMs9keieSmY+gfTpi/h7XoalilwCdJ68kvSs+R0Y oBxLy1lq+4/CHh1+Fz0qjhFF7tWwdxO4AV1b1e347LvGFMPHuFgGbfMT4BDQ7hY= =rL6A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
