Rainer, It seems I wasn't much help before.
Do you still need to use the (old) german dictionary ? By default LyX uses the dictionary of the language of the document (Layout->Document->Lanuage). So if you have this set to german, the way I understand it is that LyX would tell ispell to look for a dictionary called german.hash. This is probably a bit of a hack, but maybe you could make a dictionary called german.hash which is simply a symbolic link to the igerman dictionary. Then you could save the old german dictionary as german_old.hash and when you need to use it specify this in the spellchecker. I guess the best way to do it would be able to define a new language called igerman in (Layout->Document->Lanuage). Maybe someone, who knows a lot more about it than I do, knows how to do this ? Nick On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 5:19:pm, you wrote: > Nick, > > thanks for you reply. > > > Rainer, > > > > I am not too sure what the ngerman dictionary is but maybe I can be of > > some help. > > The German language was modified recently. The goal was to reduce the > number of exceptions in the spelling of words...during a transitional phase > both spellings may now be used in official documents. I personally prefer > to use the new spelling, which is in ngerman, the german contains the old > spelling. > > > I am assuming that you are using ispell ? > > If you have the ngerman dictionary installed you can get LyX (ispell) to > > use this to check the spelling by > > > > edit->preferences->Lang Opts->Spell checker > > > > select use alternate language, and type in ngerman > > > > (If you have the ngerman dictionary installed, you should have a > > ngerman.hash file, all of my dictionaries are in /usr/lib/ispell/) > > > > I hope thats of some help > > This is what I am doing right now. But I would like to have it as default > for all German language documents.... > > > Also why do you want an english dictionary instead of a british one ? > > Do you want american spelling ? > > It seems that I had another problem...I can't reproduce that problem any > more. > > Rainer. > > > Nick > > > > On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 3:30:am, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am wondering, if it is possible to tell lyx to use the ngerman > > > dictionary by default, if the document language is German. > > > > > > Also it seems that there is an ibritish, but no ienglish (at least in > > > Debian). > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Rainer. > > > > -- > > ____________________________________ > > Nick Burgan > > Postgraduate Student > > > > Active Noise and Vibration Control Group > > Department of Mechanical Engineering > > University of Adelaide > > SA 5005 > > AUSTRALIA > > > > Phone: +61 (0)8 8303 6385 > > Fax: +61 (0)8 8303 4367 > > ____________________________________ -- ____________________________________ Nick Burgan Postgraduate Student Active Noise and Vibration Control Group Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Adelaide SA 5005 AUSTRALIA Phone: +61 (0)8 8303 6385 Fax: +61 (0)8 8303 4367 ____________________________________
