Geoff I did do that and set up aspell including loading up the latest aspell. No luck however.
samar Angus >Hello, Samar. Please don't start a new thread by replying to a message >about something else. Those of us who's mail readers are sophisticated >enough to group messages by thread are likely to miss your posts. I thought I had gone to some lengths this time to put in the correct subject and remove the contents of the previous thread. I have made this mistake before so I was trying to be careful. How did you know it was an old thread? That would be nice to know. I have started lyx with the -dbg gui option but the message says "created pspell" and then a little later "killed pspell" I have set up lyx for aspell. samar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "samar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 6:10 PM Subject: Re: Problems with spelling checker > The defaut checker is ispell. > > In the preferences section change the checker to aspell and reconfigure. > It should work without a problem. I have just set up lyx on win xp pro > and it spell checks fine with this small addition to the wiki > instructions. > > Let me know if this works for you > > > Geoff > > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, samar wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I have recently got a new machine with windows xp pro. Lyx ( Ruurd's port) > > installed and is working flawlessly with Miktex. > > > > However, I then decided to install the spell checker and did so according to > > the instructions on the lyx wiki and ensured that aspell and the language > > file are installed in c:\aspell. > > > > F7 when pushed gives a window box with the message "Spell Checker has > > failed" and then there are three accented letters which vary from attempt to > > attempt below the message. > > > > Any ideas on what can be done to install spell check. Spell check works > > automatically in linux every time. > > > > TIA > > > > samar > > > > >
