On Sep 15, 2005, at 6:45 PM, Andre Berger wrote:
* Abhay Phadnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-09-15 23:30 +0200:
I run Mac OSX Tiger. Am having a great deal of trouble trying to
configure aspell for use with Lyx! Have downloaded and installed
cocoAspell. Even if I choose Aspell as the spellchecker in Lyx
Preferences, starting the spellchecker brings up the error message
"ispell could not be started"! I had been able to configure it on my
earlier iBook running Panther, but just can't manage it here!
You need to install the dictionary/-ies.
1. Select aspell (not ispell) in the LyX Preferences dialog, save.
2. In Terminal.app,
cd /Library/Application\ Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
and repeat steps 2 and 3 likewise for each additional dictionary you
want to install.
Actually, this is not true for cocoAspell and English dictionaries:
cocoAspell already bundles in English dictionaries, although at least
one of them needs to be selected from the cocoAspell preference pane
of System Preferences.
In addition, the new version of cocoAspell (2.0) installs aspell and
its support files in the standard Unix places in the file hierarchy.
Hence the LyX/Mac wiki page was incorrect in saying you had to create
a symbolic link to get cocoAspell to work with LyX. I've updated the
instructions on the wiki to reflect the changes: <http://wiki.lyx.org/
LyX/Mac>. (At least, the instructions posted there work for me;
please check them and let me know if they don't work for you.)
Bennett
