It would appear that on Sep 23, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say: > While waiting in hopes of a better method, I figured out a very crude down > and dirty work around... > > First, as previously described, I wrap the section of the document I intend to > spellcheck with the the begin and end marker lines. {with or without the > deliberately misspelled garbage word} But it MUST stand out visually. > > Then I open a garbage .lyx file and delete any existing content. Then I > switch back to the real file and mark & cut everything in between the > marker lines. Next I paste that into the garbage file and spellcheck that > file. When the spell checking is complete I can mark & cut the contents the > return to the real file, and paste the spellchecked content in between the > marker lines... > > This at least works. But I shouldn't have to do it this way.
I Noticed a fringe benefit to doing it this way BTW... One of my pet peeves about the new spell checker is that the sidebar doesn't go away when I escape out of it AND there doesn't seem to be a way to assign a keyboard shortcut to the act of dismissing it. {I strongly dislike having to use my sometimes non-existent mouse pointer coordination to position the durned pointer on that tiny little "x" long enough to click on it...} Well that fringe benefit is that since the garbage .lyx file ONLY contains the text I actually want to spellcheck, I start spellchecking by first pressing <ctrl>+<home> Then <F7> so when it gets to the end of the garbage file the spellchecker knows it just checked the whole file. (Assuming I didn't have to interrupt it in mid process) and then when it reaches the end of the file that durned sidebar automatically goes away. {You know the one. I'm talking about the sidebar that in my humble opinion should go away by itself every time spell checking is <escape>ed out of... So that by it's very presence on screen I could know that the enter key would "push" the currently selected sidebar button rather than replacing the hi-lighted word with a new paragraph...} -- | ~~~ ~~~ | <@> <@> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | ~\___/~ <<jtw...@ttlc.net>>