Peter Pakulski wrote:
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.
This is normal. That control is used to select a spell-checker, but the
Windows version is hard-coded to use Aspell, and the option to select
anything else is greyed-out.
I've
tried a few of workarounds:
- Adding paths to the Path Prefix (C:\Aspell, C:\Aspell\lib,
C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60)
This should be unnecessary, since Aspell *must* be installed in C:\Aspell.
- Changing lyxrc.defaults manually ('\spell_command aspell' and
'\spell_command "aspell"')
Also unnecessary, as the Windows version knows that it's Aspell (in
C:\Aspell) or nothing.
- 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.
This is a known bug. If there is only one misspelled word, it will
highlight that word but not open the dialog to correct it (giving the
word count instead). If there are two or more misspelled words, it will
highlight the second and open the correction dialog.
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.
Did you install a British (v. American) dictionary?
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?
There's a readme file, and your personal dictionary (words you've added)
goes there. Pretty much everything else lives in subdirectories.
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.
This is the correct structure.
It's driving me absolutely nuts. Anyone have a guess at what might be
wrong?
Other than the known bug of skipping the first misspelled word, I
suspect it's working properly, but possibly with the wrong dictionary.
/Paul
