On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:43 AM, F M Salter <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the wiki new restrictions are indicated which seem to imply the
> withdrawal of support for aspell.
> Aspell dictionary version 6 is discussed.  However version 7 is now
> available which works with aspell 6!
>
> It appears that hunspell is being presented as the spell checker of choice.
> Is this the case?
>
> I find that for spell checking english (gb),  hunspell is almost incapable
> of handling punctuation correctly!
> This has been a problem for many years and it seems to be that no
> improvement is being considered!
> Aspell is significantly better.
>
> What future changes if any are being planned for linux users as the apparent
> reason seems to relate to Windows inadequacies?
>
At least on Linux LyX 2.1.x can be built with support for Aspell (the
library), and this seems to work fine. And I haven't heard any noises
on the list wrt Aspell being completely dropped...

Regards,
Liviu

> Regards
> Frank Salter



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