Am 15.11.2014 um 11:13 schrieb Liviu Andronic <[email protected]>:
> 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! What is Aspell 6 and aspell 7? I know of aspell 0.60.6.1 as latest release. >> 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… Cite from wiki: "Note: Beginning with 2.0 support for the aspell command line program has been dropped. Although the aspell library (aspell 0.60.x) is still supported, Windows binaries are compiled without this feature." For Mac OS X aspell support is always included too. Stephan
