On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:09:15AM +0800, Rob Davies wrote: > >>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: > > It is not an incompatibility, because it is not installed.
Ah, but it is! > > 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. > > If you have installed cocoAspell 2.? then you will not need the link > as it already does this for you. I have installed cocoAspell 2.0.1, and there is no such link (unless perhaps I'm not understanding what "this" in "it already does this for you"). > What you need to do is follow the link to the dictionaries on > cocoAspell site and download aspell6-en-6.0-0.tar.bz2. Decompress and > place folder in /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell this places > it where OS X Tigger looks for it then go into your System > Preferences and select dictionaries. The package install program does all of this for you. (Just to be sure, I went and grabbed the file in question and unzipped it. It is exactly what I find in /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0.) > Now try LyX if it works congrats if not then their is another trick. > Copy the file you downloaded from the one you placed in cocoAspell > using command line tool (Terminal) go to where folder is and type > executing with the return key after each command. > > ./configure > make > make install > > This installs the dictionary in the actual Aspell folder at /usr/ > local/lib/aspell-0.60 It was already there. > and LyX should work with this dictionary now. Blimey, must have been a permissions thing, as the content of the two relevant dirs appears not to have changed, but this did the trick! Something must be just a bit wonky with the cocoAspell package installer. Much obliged! -chris
