silvio grosso wrote:
Hello everybody,
I would like to donate something more to the "continuous spell
checking project". The link is: http://www.lyx.org/Donate. At
present, It lacks 237 euros to be accepted by Abdelrazak Younes
First of all, I know it might be obvious but I would like to know
whether this feature is going to work on all platforms: Windows,
Linux, Mac. I suppose the answer is positive...
Rigth. Everything's cross platform.
Secondly, I read the roadmap about Lyx 2 and there is an interesting
improvement related to the spell checking. More precisely, I noticed
Jurgen Spitzmüller has introduced support for the MyThes thesaurus
library which is what OpenOffice uses. The link is:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20 I am wondering if this will apply
to the continuous spell checking feature. In short, the dictionaries
are going to be the same? I am interested mainly in the Italian
dictionary because I know all thesaurus for Italian are really good
in OpenOffice.
As Jürgen said, this is about the spellchecker, not the Thesaurus. Now,
if you talk about the MySpell/Hunspell engine used in OpenOffice, that
is a different project, entirely.
But, ideally, the inline spellchecking capabilities will be programmed
in spellchecker agnostic way. At least that's how I am going to
implement it.
Thirdly, I would like to know whether this extension could damage the
Lyx performances. If this happens, needless to say, It could be
disabled by default... In many softwares as OpenOffice using the
spell checker on windows xp I have never noticed any problem...
Nevertheless Lyx is a very different software...
My preliminar test don't indicate any performance penalties. The feature
will not be mandatory of course. One will be able to disable it.
To sum up, is there a date regarding the availability of this feature
(provided the 1000 euro are reached soon)? I am aware it is a really
early to ask about the Lyx 2 version but I am wondering if you
developers have a rough idea regarding its release date. Maybe after
summer 2009? I looked for in the roadmap section but I didn't find
anything.
If it is like 1.5 and 1.6, 2.0 will probably appear after the summer,
probably at the end of the year. But nothing is sure of course.
Abdel.
