Hi,
I've just installed Lyx for the first time on this machine, using the
installer from:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller
for Lyx 1.4.1
Both before and after installing the Aspell language pack (for English),
Spell-checking is greyed-out in Tools->Preferences->Spellchecker. I've
tried a few of workarounds:
- Adding paths to the Path Prefix (C:\Aspell, C:\Aspell\lib,
C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60)
- Changing lyxrc.defaults manually ('\spell_command aspell' and
'\spell_command "aspell"')
- Uninstalling Aspell and reinstalling from a seperate installer
(AspellData-0.60.4.exe)
and yes, I've been choosing "reconfigure" after every change and
restarted Lyx.
In any configuration, spell checking works on long documents with
headings etc..., but will not work for short documents (a few sentences
only), sometimes (I haven't figured out what the conditions are) it will
highlight a word but not open the spellchecking window. It always skips
the first misspelled word in the document. Even though the default
language is set to British, it complains about "colour", and tries to
put 'z's in words like "Realise" (Is this a known Aspell issue?). Again
reiterating - it seems to be completely unavailable from the preferences
menu.
I'm a little unsure of the fact that C:/Aspell contains only the
uninstaller executable and the "lib" directory - shouldn't some other
files belong in there? The Lib directory contains nothing but the
"aspell-0.60" directory. Only in C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60 do all the
files and dictionary files exist. This is as per all the default
options. I've tried copying and moving the files up and down the
hierarchy, but not necessarily for every combination of the things I've
tried above.
It's driving me absolutely nuts. Anyone have a guess at what might be
wrong?
Thanks,
Peter.
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----------------------------------------------- Peter Pakulski
Postgraduate Studies, Department of Engineering, Flinders University,
Adelaide.
