-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: things that I miss in lyx Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:51:24 +0100 From: Walter van Holst <walter.van.ho...@xs4all.nl> To: Jose Quesada <ques...@gmail.com>
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:23:34 +0100, Jose Quesada <ques...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > In no special order, things that I miss in lyx... > > 1. incremental search > > 2. sentence autocapitalization As others have written, NO! IN THE NAME OF EVERYTHING THAT IS HOLY, DON'T! > 3. grammar check (not crucial) Grammar checks are non-trivial, it would be nice to have this in a modular way so we can share this with other open source efforts in this field. > 4. search highlight occurences Even nicer, the search implemented by Apple's Preview document viewer provides a side bar with frequency bars of the search term's occurence on each page. > 7. the rest of the world operates on rich text/html. LyX doesn't (clipboard > integration is poor, copy-pasting from/to web loses formatting) Actuall, I prefer the current default of losing formatting. The whole point of LyX is that you focus on structure and content and have LaTeX take care of formatting. The rest of the world operates on a fundamentally braindead paradigm and if I wanted to use that paradigm I'd be a happy OOo camper. Which I am not. > 8. 'pasted from' and url for every paste from the web (onenote uses this > and > it's damn inspired) That sounds good. Some Zotero-like stuff might be helpful too. Regards, Walter
