> Of course. And anyone who wants to code this can do so. This was in > response to the suggestion that LyX lacked this incredibly wonderful and > painfully obvious feature. My point was that it isn't obviously > wonderful. Indeed, I'd go so far as to say that, if you think you want > it, you're either wrong or not very focused on writing. But to each his > or her own.
Thanks Richard for the discursive effort! I'm seriously reconsidering my understanding of WYSIWYG and its typesetting counterpart. I used to think that focusing on writing means also paying attention to the order of letters, rather than assuming that this something to do with "style". Either way, one thing for sure out of this discussion is that perhaps the boundaries between "style" and "mere writing" are not as clear cut. Also, of course, if your texts consists of many formula or a mass of strings of letters which are not in your dictionary, a on the fly spellcheck becomes utterly pointless (yes distracting!) and should be switched off. However, this is exactly what I was trying to say with my (in hindsight probably not very clever) example of "humanities" writing. For some people, there might not be much distraction (in form of occasional wavily lines), but rather a continually indication of your document writing status, which I consider is a basic feature. Hope this makes sense. Thank you for your patience with me on bringing this point across. Cheers, Sam
