* Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-09-16 09:50 +0200: > 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.)
I've got the latest LyX/Mac and cocoAspell 2.0.2 (AFAIK the latest version as well), multiple dictionaries selected. It was suppposed to do an automatic install of English, but didn't work as advertised, and my tweaks in ~/.aspell.conf didn't work either. The manual installation solved all problems (for me), and hopefully for the OP. I'm not the only one experiencing this, see <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg39366.html> -Andre
