Am 23.09.2011 um 23:32 schrieb Joe(theWordy)Philbrook:
>
> Hello. I'm a multi-boot, multi-Linux user. I chose LyX for a personal
> writing project some time ago. And for the most part I've been happy with
> that choice. But the spell checker in LyX2 is making me wish I knew how to
> cleanly export my documents to LibreOffice.
>
> Now I'm not even talking about the horrible way the new spellchecker
> responds to keyboard control. {Though some of it's shortcut keys conflict with
> the ones in the pull down menu. & There doesn't appear to be a way to get
> rid of it's sidebar when your done spellchecking without maneuvering the
> mouse pointer to, and clicking on the little x icon} As much as I despise
> that behavior it's nothing compared to the what it jumps around.
>
> I have at times deliberately introduced non-words into my documents that I
> don't want to permanently add to the dictionary. Sometimes it has to do
> with quoting a character who doesn't spell (or speak) proper English.
>
> Picture a big cartoon like character rubbing his head where somebody he
> thought was a friend just broke a barstool over his head and the big guy turns
> to his friend and says: "Ya shoodna awda dun that Bobby!"
>
> Now if that were actually part of my "story", say in chapter 3, I'd have taken
> care to spell check that part of the document while I was thinking about it so
> that I would remember to use the ignore button... I always used to do this
> by wrapping the part I wanted to spellcheck with lines like:
>
> Spellcheck section begin garrrrbaggge marker line
> Spellcheck section end garrrrbaggge marker line
>
> Then I'd position the cursor someplace after the non-word "garrrrbaggge" on
> the first marker and press F7... Then as long as I remembered to stop
> spellchecking when it reached the 2nd instance of garrrrbaggge, I'd be
> fine.
>
> Well that doesn't work anymore. I might wrap chapter 10 in those
> garrrrbaggge lines and start spell checking chapter 10 only to suddenly
> discover that all by itself the spellchecker decided to jump back to some
> questionable word in chapter 3... <sigh> Even this wouldn't be so bad
> except that many of the intentional non-words are a little less obvious
> than the above fictional example. And in fact I'm not sure how many of them
> I accidentally corrected before I noticed something distinctive that
> couldn't have been in the section I thought I was spell checking.
Well, I'm afraid I didn't understand your example... You're saying the
spell checker does not detect the word "garrrrbaggge" as misspelled and wraps
around instead? Perhaps you've used "Ignore all" instead of the "Ignore" button?
> IS there a method to restrict the spellchecker to a limited range of the
> document and/or to only check in a top to bottom in-line path that doesn't
> skip around the document???
You should have been asked at the end of the document before wrapping around.
And no there is no way to spell check some selection of text only.
But there is an enhancement request already: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2511
Stephan
> I really hope there is, because if there isn't I'm going to have to risk
> damaging the .lyx file by using the command line version of Aspell on it...
> Because I can't work with a spell checker that won't work where I tell it
> to.
>
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