Spellchecking dictionaries in LyX 2.4 installer

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 03:26:31PM -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 10/30/20 3:04 PM, José Abílio Matos wrote:
> > 
> > On Friday, October 30, 2020 6:59:45 PM WET Joel Kulesza wrote:
> > 
> > > Some didn't even think to ask the question of whether it was available
> > but
> > 
> > > once demonstrated there was an "oh wow" moment.  As such, I'd be in
> > favor
> > 
> > > of exposing capability and letting someone then pursue how to make it
> > stop
> > 
> > > rather than press on in ignorance of its existence.
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > > - Joel
> > 
> > 
> > +1
> > 
> I wouldn't oppose this. It's probably easier to figure out how to turn it
> off than to figure out that it's there at all. And you really only have to
> do that once.

I support this idea as well, but we've already had this debate and there is considerable opposition. When there's opposition to this type of change, even if the majority support the change, usually we don't do it since the benefit of the doubt goes to the current default. We would need a strong majority to support the change and incur the cost of changing the default, and if I remember correctly I don't think a strong majority support the change.

By they way, I really dislike continuous spell-check for my own use. It disrupts the flow of writing. The main reason I use LyX is to be able to focus on writing and not curly braces or backslashes. The reason I support turning it on by default is I've met some long-time LyX users who were joyfully shocked when I showed them the feature, so I agree with Joel's reasoning.

Scott
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