On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 04:51:23PM +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > >> Do you have btw. an idea how to highlight the characters LyX stubles over? > >> It would be helpful when LyX tells the user that a character is not in the > >> used encoding, that the problematic character is highlighted. > > > I hate any highlighting, flashing, and so on... > > Why? When you e.g. search, you also get the found string highlighted, > so why not do the same in this case.
That's in response to a precise request from me and not done without my consent. For example, the first thing I do when forced to use Word, is deactivating that stupid "feature" about underlining in red unknown words. > Bo and Helge requested this also. No pasaran! > > A quick way to discover if there's a problem, is activating View->Source > > and looking at the warnings in the terminal from where you started LyX. > > This is not user friendly. Average users will be lost when they get the > encoding error, because they don't know LaTeX's error handling. Thus, they report the problem and we can fix it. > View -> Source is something for the experts. On the contrary, I think that it is most useful for the novices. -- Enrico
