I sympathize with those who need auto correction. For myself: * I'm decent with touch typing * However, when typing on "cheap" keyboards, I do more mistakes... some keyboards may fail to register a key stroke if hit slightly off center
However, I have become very sceptical towards auto correction based on experience with Word+Outlook and smartphones... * Word tries to auto detect language, and does a poor job - resulting in numerous problems * I have tried to tailor make Office auto correction, but my settings often have been reset the next time I use the tool, or after upgrades. * Auto correction may introduce bad mistakes that I sometimes don't see... my smartphone once auto-changed the name of an ice cream chain to the Spanish word for one-night stand in a communication in Spanish... which was not taken well... * I often use technical words that are not in the dictionary; auto correction would then be disastrous. So, for me, auto-correction would be a total turn-off unless I could turn it off, and *know* that my setting was not changed by "the system". I would rather live with my few mistakes, than use a system that introduce arbitrary mistakes that were not intended. B Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> ________________________________ From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> on behalf of Ricardo Berlasso <rgb.m...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, November 4, 2018 2:08:55 PM To: LyX Users Subject: Re: auto fixing mispelled words Sorry for jumping into the discussion, but I think some people here are missing the real point of the problem El dom., 4 nov. 2018 a las 12:47, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) (<daniel....@oeconomist.com<mailto:daniel....@oeconomist.com>>) escribió: On 11/4/18 1:18 AM, Pol wrote: > > Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: > > Yes, a set of specific words to be fixed by rearranging letters. No. The computer would not _rearrange_ letters. It would effect a string subsitution, oblivious to whether any of the letters in the replacement string appeared in the original string. > E.g. writing quickly it often happens to write 'informazioen' rather than > ' informazione'. > Sometimes that word appears correctly on the screen, sometimes it is > distorted like that, as an anagram of the right word. It doesn't just happen. The screen displays what you entered. > Is that mistake a matter of 'learning'? Yes, unequivocally. Not necessarily. There are several forms of mild dyslexia in which the person swaps letters or even "fingers" (typing an "o" instead of an "a," for example). I know this from experience because I have the problem. And yes, working hard and being attentive solves many (not all, mind you) of the "accidents," but still... I've been writing in computers almost every day for the last 30 years and still have many silly "typos:" in my case it's not a matter of practice. And that's just a first point. An autocorrect tool can also be useful for people without those problems: As a matter of fact, LyX actually perform an autocorrect every time it changes two dashes into an en-dash and three into an em-dash. Maybe this feature could be generalized. Think of changing the first character of a phrase into caps, for example, or setting a substitution pattern to change a couple of characters into a symbol or a longer text you need to insert several times in the document. It doesn't need to be something fixed (in fact, it shouldn't!), just a table that any user can fill at will: first column, what you want to substitute, second column, the substitution, and then the system perform those changes in real time. LibreOffice has such tool and yes, most of the elements in their default table are just a list of stupid emojis, but that does not mean the feature is stupid. Just my two cents! Regards, Ricardo > You mean that i should gain a > better motor control of my fingers' movements? Typing is a learned skill, involving multiple processes. I don't know (or much care) which process you've not properly learned. > My guess is that my mind form the mispelled word, while quickly > writing, because 'informazioen' and ' informazione' are the same, in > my mind. In that case, you need to learn otherwise. > There would be much to say about the meaning of 'learning', but this is > not the right place to discuss about that. I do not know which aspects > of learning would be involved here, but i am puzzled about how to > improve my writing by learning. If it's truly a matter of your not understanding the difference between “informazioen” and “informazione”, then you need to look into how better to learn orthography. > Anyway, that kind of mispelling happens often. Should i spend years to > learn, hoping ti improve my typewriting ability? If necessary. But most adults wouldn't need years. > Rather, it would be very convenient to see that kind of mistakes > instantly corrected. I am again very much reminded of Cyril Kornbluth's story. > Don't you agree? Obviously I don't agree. You shouldn't even have asked whether I agree.
