----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexander Gahr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:03 AM Subject: Add Function Aspell (was Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2)
Hm tried this before but gave it another try. I installed lyx cocoaspell or aspell only. Removed /Users/gahr/Library/Application Support/LyX this is the place where in the apple installation the perferences are stored. But i have the same problem i can't add word to a dictionary from within lyx. Alex
Sometimes things don't work cross-platform. For instance extra-dicts doesn't work for Win32. But this situation is pretty basic. Remove anything from LyX-->Edit-->Preferences-->Language settings, Spellchecker-->personal dictionary. Just use the master dictionary. This setting has never been needed to add words to the personal dict. On Win32, it will only accept the generic .ispell suffixed filename. So, then you are just using one master dictionary. When you spellcheck the window pops open and gives you a choice to ignore, replace or add. Replace will change the spelling of the word displayed but not add it to your personal dictionary. Add, does not change the display spelling, but that word is now part of your personal dictionary and should not come up again as a misspelled word. You can test this by deliberately adding some misspelled words by typing a sentence in LyX : quoxitic nautilis fidociary and then add them all. Then "cat en.pws" (or win32 "type en.pws") if using English language. The added misspelled words should be appended to the bottom of the list. If the test doesn't work (display the newly added words) then that means the en.pws is not being written to, probably a path error. If you had a large list of technical words not usually found in a dictionary and you wanted to add them to your dictionary. Dump the word lists of both the standard and technical dictionaries, merge them, and then use "aspell create master" to recreate a combined dictionary. If there is a word that one wants to change the spelling of in several instances, search and replace is usually used. Bennett is the resident os x guru. en.pws is the filename of the personal dictionary under win32, at least. Also, perhaps it will be necessary to "reconfigure" after erasing the personal dict field.
Looks like an error in your configuration files. Move all of them out of the way! In LyX, leave the personal dictionary field blank. Add a word, and ~/.aspell*pws should be created. -Andre -- Highspeed-Freiheit. Bei GMX supergünstig, z.B. GMX DSL_Cityflat, DSL-Flatrate für nur 4,99 Euro/Monat* http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl
