Downloaded the tgz for LyX, extracted it.
Downloaded the cocoaAspell 2.0.1. installed it.
Installed the LyX pkg.
Ran spell check which promptly gave the error in my Fink distribution that aspell-en is missing.
Run Fink Commander. Aspell by default installs everything but your language specific options.
Selected aspell-en and installed from source.
Ran F7 to spell check and the Inspector showed up as expected and off to spell check land I go.
This is very simple. Aspell-en or your language of choice needs to have a note via Fink that it needs to later be installed for one's localization specific needs.
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On May 11, 2005, at 11:00 AM, Chris Menzel wrote:
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
