On 10/18/18 4:26 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
The document I'm now writing has many hyphenated words (e.g.,
Douglas-fir,
near-surface) and all are questioned by the spelling checker. I don't
recall
seeing this before and don't know if its source is lyx or the spell
checker
being used (I don't recall whether it's aspell or ispell).
No action is required on anyone's part but I find it interesting that
these compound words are seen as being mis-spelled, even after I
(supposedly) add them to the dictionary.
Regards,
Rich
LyX is not the culprit. I just copied your first paragraph into a LyX
document (and added a hyphenated word of my own, in case the hyphens in
your email pasted in as some funky character). The spelling checker
(Enchant, which probably means aspell doing the actual work) had no
problem with any hyphenated words. It only bitched about "lyx" and
"aspell" (but, curiously, not about "ispell").
Perhaps it's a configuration option in whichever engine you're using? If
that's too much hassle, you might try going to Tools > Preferences... >
Language Settings > Spellchecker and putting a hyphen in the "Escape
characters" field. Maybe that will fix it?
Paul
