Another unique selling point of Word is the language checker (spell and
grammar), which is an order of magnitude better than aspell, ispell and
everything else I have seen so far. For a publisher this might be a
strong argument, as submitted documents already contain significantly
fewer language issues that have to be corrected by editors.
Very good point. I often do get the comment that I should run the spell
checker. But it takes the same amount of time to check with the Lyx
spell checker and train it all the technical terms as printing and
correcting it manually.
I still use Word for the final spell check of my documents. After the
LyX spell checker run and proof-reading everything, I just copy the
whole text into an empty word document and look for suspicious red and
green lines.
How to you do this?
I can't copy anything from Lyx to another program on Ubuntu Feisty (V.
1.4.3).
Selections I do within Lyx are ignored by other programs.
I never understood why Lyx which is based on QT is not able to access
the windows manager clipboard like the following procedure:
1) CTRL+A = select the whole text in Lyx
2) CTRL+C = copy selected text
3) switch to Gedit, Kile, Kate or Openoffice
4) CTRL+V = paste selected text there
I am not taking of X-server clipboard. There are several posts about it.
Why not using the normal clipboad just as copying from Kate to Gedit?
(Please correct me if I am wrong here!)
Another feature that could ease up writing could be auto completion of
words. Like we have in Openoffice Writer, Scribes, Gedit, Quanta, etc.
This would speed up the process a lot.
Kind reards,
Timmie
