Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-05 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/5/18 12:31 AM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: El lun., 5 nov. 2018 a las 0:53, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) (>) escribió: On 11/4/18 5:08 AM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: > > Sorry for jumping into the discussion, but I think so

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-05 Thread Ricardo Berlasso
El lun., 5 nov. 2018 a las 0:53, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) () escribió: > On 11/4/18 5:08 AM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: > > > > Sorry for jumping into the discussion, but I think some people here > > are missing the real point of the problem > > > >> Is that mistake a mat

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-04 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/4/18 4:55 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 04/11/2018 à 14:26, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) a écrit : I think we have to calm down here. I doubt that you should inject your guesses about the moods of others. As you prefer. It is about a proposed feature. F

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 04/11/2018 à 14:26, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) a écrit : I think we have to calm down here. I doubt that you should inject your guesses about the moods of others. As you prefer. It is about a proposed feature. FWIW, I do some of these typos, but I am not sure t

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-04 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/4/18 3:57 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 04/11/2018 à 13:52, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) a écrit : Not necessarily. There are several forms of mild dyslexia in which the person swaps letters or even "fingers" (typing an "o" instead of an "a," for example).

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 04/11/2018 à 13:52, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) a écrit : Not necessarily. There are several forms of mild dyslexia in which the person swaps letters or even "fingers" (typing an "o" instead of an "a," for example). Dyslexia is a _learning_ disability.  Further, t

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-04 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/4/18 5:08 AM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: Sorry for jumping into the discussion, but I think some people here are missing the real point of the problem Is that mistake a matter of 'learning'? Yes, unequivocally. Not necessarily. There are several forms of mild dyslexia in which the per

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-04 Thread Bernt Lie
bitrary mistakes that were not intended. B Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org on behalf of Ricardo Berlasso Sent: Sunday, November 4, 2018 2:08:55 PM To: LyX Users Subject: Re: auto fixing mispelled words Sorry for jump

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-04 Thread Ricardo Berlasso
Sorry for jumping into the discussion, but I think some people here are missing the real point of the problem El dom., 4 nov. 2018 a las 12:47, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) () escribió: > On 11/4/18 1:18 AM, Pol wrote: > > > > Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of th

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-04 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/4/18 1:18 AM, Pol wrote: Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: Yes, a set of specific words to be fixed by rearranging letters. No. The computer would not _rearrange_ letters. It would effect a string subsitution, oblivious to whether any of the letters in the

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-04 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/4/18 1:44 AM, Michael Berger wrote: Do you think this list is the right place for your continuing dispute? He's advocating a change to LyX.

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-04 Thread Michael Berger
Do you think this list is the right place for your continuing dispute? Michael Berger On 11/4/18 10:18 AM, Pol wrote: Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: On 11/3/18 5:46 AM, paolo m. wrote: I am not able to 'learn' how not to make typos. Do you? I learn not to make

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-04 Thread Pol
Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: > On 11/3/18 5:46 AM, paolo m. wrote: >> I am not able to 'learn' how not to make typos. Do you? > > I learn not to make _specific_ typographical errors, and the facility > that you request would only deal with sets of specific errors.

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-03 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 11/3/18 5:46 AM, paolo m. wrote: Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: You've not answered my actual question. A feature of the sort that you propose is not likely to be popular; the vast majority of people would, in constructing the underlying look-up table, find th

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-11-03 Thread paolo m.
Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: > > You've not answered my actual question. A feature of the sort that > you propose is not likely to be popular; the vast majority of people > would, in constructing the underlying look-up table, find themselves > learning not to make

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-10-23 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 10/23/2018 05:41 AM, Pol wrote: Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: On 10/22/2018 04:16 AM, Pol wrote: A possible improvement of the spellchecker facility: Common, typical mispellings made by authors could be istantaneously autocorrected by lyx, by checking a su

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-10-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 10/22/18 7:16 AM, Pol wrote: A possible improvement of the spellchecker facility: Common, typical mispellings made by authors could be istantaneously autocorrected by lyx, by checking a suitable list maintained by authors themseves. p. I would be okay with this, but only if it was "opt

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-10-23 Thread Pol
Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch) wrote: > On 10/22/2018 04:16 AM, Pol wrote: >> >> A possible improvement of the spellchecker facility: Common, typical >> mispellings made by authors could be istantaneously autocorrected by >> lyx, by checking a suitable list maintained by

Re: auto fixing mispelled words

2018-10-22 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (the best Daniel of the bunch)
On 10/22/2018 04:16 AM, Pol wrote: A possible improvement of the spellchecker facility: Common, typical mispellings made by authors could be istantaneously autocorrected by lyx, by checking a suitable list maintained by authors themseves. If there is to be a list of substring substitutions au