It would appear that on Mar 22, Julio Rojas did say:
> The only feature I miss is a layout editor. I don't know how easy
> would it be to program one, but that would be one good addition.
Don't know much about that... I just use LyX, I don't really understand it
very well, so I'm not grasping the advantages of this "feature" ?
> The second one I miss, mostly because I'm not a native English speaker,
> is online spell checking, but that is coming in 2.0.
Oh Gawd no! That is if I understand you to mean that it will check my
spelling as I type, and interrupt my creative flow to inform me that it
thinks I misspelled something. {or even worse silently replacing
misspelled or unknown words with what it thinks is the best matching
replacement word} No, I much prefer it wait for me to tell it I'm ready
for such a distraction. {by pressing F7} So I sincerely hope and pray
that if that's what you mean by online spellchecking that they make it
easy to totally disable it...
What I'd find useful might be that it kept track of which (chapters,
parts, sections, etc... I'd modified during a sessioni, and if the last
modification wasn't a spellcheck operation, then inform me with a dialog
box on output, manual file save, file close, or program quit, that there
are modified (sections etc...) that have not been spell checked, And would I
like to spell check {just those modified sections, chapters etc...) first.
I note that any of the above (with the possible exception of the manual
save) would tend to indicate that the "creative flow" of content has
already been interrupted when I decided I wanted to see what the finished
product looked like or chose to close the file or quit LyX...
This would of course imply that there would be a spellcheck option to
spell check all "modified" sections, chapters etc... on command. Probably
this would be a difficult thing to implement. So I sure don't expect to
see it in LyX or even something like OO.o, any time soon. But, it'd be
much more welcome than <shudder> checking my spelling as I type...
> Again, I have to give my most sincere thanks to all developers. Lyx is
> a wonderful tool...
On that I think we agree! ;-)
> ...even if my WinEdt addict friends at the lab keep laughing at me for
> using it. :D
In the long run, I think the joke's on them...
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