On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 09:12:40AM -0400, Bennett Helm wrote: > Installing cocoaspell works for me with LyX-1.3.5 on 10.3. For it to > work, however, you must create a soft link from > /Library/PreferencePanes/Spelling.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/cocoAspell to > /usr/local/bin/aspell (as specified in the wiki page > (<http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Mac>). > > I don't have 10.4, which I gather is what you mean when you say > "tigger", right?
Right (o.k.a. "Tiger"). > Do let us know if there is an incompatibility there. There is an incompatibility there! :-) The 10.3 wiki instructions fail for 10.4; setting the LyX Spellchecker pref to "aspell" and then doing a spellcheck brings up the error msg: Error: The file "/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english" can not be opened for reading. There is no such file, or subdir, as "english" in /usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60. (Nor is there, for that matter, any such file in the aspell-0.60 distribution on my FreeBSD box -- which suggests perhaps aspell is not being called correctly within LyX?) I've tried setting numerous symlinks therein to dictionary files and such that are residing in /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0 to no avail (all of which returned an error msg to the effect that the file I tried linking to was in the wrong format). aspell works just fine from the command line, btw. Just FYI, Darwinports ispell works, and I perhaps Darwinports aspell would as well, but I wasn't able to confirm that, as the compile failed. :-( Chris Menzel
