On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:40:22AM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > On Thursday 21 November 2002 3:47 am, Alexey Spiridonov wrote: > > * It's conceivable that I might even need 3 -- that begs the question of > > how I'm to display, say, both Russian and French at the same time, since > > French accented letters overlap with the Russian character set, If > > someone knows the answer, please tell me. > > I don't think that this is possible currently; we must first move to using > unicode internally. I understand that this is planned for sometime soon...
It is possible: you just need to select iso10646-1 font encoding for screen fonts in the preferences dialog. However, currently the latex output of multi-lingual document suck. It works if you change the language for entire paragraphs, but you may have problems if you mix several languages (with different encodings) inside the same paragraph. > > Therefore, I think it should be up to LyX to do spell checking in an > > intelligent manner. I see several approaches. One is to implement > > dynamic spell checking a la Word, and use that for single-pass spell > > checking as well. Here's how I would go about doing that: > > Actually, it's quite easy I think. The spellchecking is controlled from > src/frontends/controllers/ControlSpellcecker.C. LyX 1.3 already supports spellchecking of multi-lingual documents.
