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From: "Mark Engelberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: Windows spellchecker for LyX?
Paul said:
You can find the dictionary at http://aspell.net/win32/. In fact, you
can find all sorts of dictionaries there. LyX does not install Aspell,
in part because on Unix-type platforms you get your choice of which
spellchecker you want to use. (On Windows, you can use any one you
want, as long as it's Aspell.) Aspell, in turn, installs the software
but not the dictionary, because you get to pick your language.
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OK, I was able to install aspell, and the English dictionary. I still
can't figure out how to get LyX to recognize the aspell and the English
dictionary. Under the spellchecker menu option, it only shows ispell as
the spellchecker (it's grayed out), and when I tried to "browse" for a
dictionary, it seemed to be looking for a different kind of file format
than what aspell uses.
I'm really looking forward to getting this working. It's exciting to
finally be able to use LyX on my Windows computer.
Thanks,
Mark
As Milos says you must install Aspell in C:\Aspell.
Put the dictionary and Aspell in C:\Aspell and install to C:\Aspell
It is good practice to install Windows programs with Control Panel,
Add/Remove Programs. It is good practice to avoid installing
LyX and related programs in directories which have spaces such as
C:\Program Files even though it will often work. Put C:\Aspell in
the Path (read Windows help about how to add to the Path statement).
Maybe you will have to uninstall and reinstall Aspell and dictionary
depending on whether you put them in C:\Aspell to start with.
In Lyx, after the install of Aspell, use Edit -->Reconfigure and
that should enable spell-checking. Put the mouse cursor at
the beginning of the line to be checked. Don't worry about any
reference to Ispell, Aspell will be used when in C:\Aspell
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136
**Things the installer doesn’t do**
The new installer will guide you through many of the steps needed to produce
a useful
LyX environment, but it doesn’t do everything. Some things it doesn’t do:
a.. Check for the existence of viewers for your PostScript and PDF
documents and, if not present, offer to download them;
b.. Install the Aspell spell checking library and dictionaries;
c.. Install extra math fonts.
You’ll have to do those things yourself.
PostScript and PDF viewers
a.. GSView is able to preview both PostScript and PDF documents.
b.. Adobe’s Acroread is the canonical viewer for PDF documents.
After installing these tools, running Edit→Reconfigure should be enough for
LyX to find them. (You’ll have to restart LyX for the changes to take
effect.) It may be, however, that you’ll need to adjust the PATH prefix
entry in the Paths pane of the Edit→Preferences dialog. Check the Viewer
entry in the File formats pane of the same dialog to see if a viewer has
been found.
Spell checking
For spell checking to work in LyX you’ll need to install
Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe and dictionaries such as Aspell-en-0.50-2-3.exe
from the Windows Aspell web site.
These must be installed at C:\Aspell
