On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Sam Lewis wrote:
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".
Nicely phrased! I think it should be added somewhere to the wiki, although
I don't know where. Perhaps a page discussing the focus/purpose/idea of
LyX and WYSIWYM? Any ideas of where?
I'm thinking that such a page would be a good reference when explaining
what LyX is about.
/C
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
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
