I'm having a devil of a time trying to get spell check working with LyX
2.3.0 and Mac OS 10.13.4. I have similar configurations on two other
computers, and the spell check does seem to work there. But on this one,
whenever I issue Tools > Spellchecker..., LyX throws the error message,
"Spell checker has no dictionaries." This happens with all 3 available
Spellchecker engines: Native, Aspell, and Hunspell.
Here are some things I've tried:
* Install the latest version of LibreOffice, which relies on Hunspell.
I thought reinstalling LO might fix issues with Hunspell, at least.
* Reinstall Hunspell. Hunspell is supposedly included with recent
versions of Mac OS, but I followed the OSX and macOS instructions on
the Hunspell GitHub page <https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell> to
(re)install Hunspell.
* Downloaded and reinstalled the en_US.aff/dic files as recommended
here
<https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/258601/spellchecker-in-lyx-2-1-4-does-not-work>.
The original post is several years old, and one hopes any corruption
in the dictionary file would have been corrected by now, but one
never knows.
* Test with each of the 3 spell checkers.
FWIW, this testing was done with:
* LyX > Preferences > Language Settings > Spellchecker always set to
activate "Spellcheck continuously" and "Spellcheck notes and comments."
* LyX > Preferences > Language Settings > Spellchecker does not allow
activation of "Accept compound words," as this option is grayed out.
* LyX > Preferences > Paths > Hunspell dictionaries set to
"~/Library/Spelling"
A MWE is attached.
Please help me before I spell again!!!
Thanks.
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