Ed Gatzke wrote:
I have not been able to get spell checking to work on the 1.4.1 LyX build on
Windows XP.
I have installed Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe and told it to install in C:\Aspell
I have installed aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe in a variety of places, including
C:\Aspell C:\Aspell\Dictionaries and C:\Aspell\lib
My installation has a C:\Aspell\dict folder that the Aspell installer
created. That is where I park dictionaries.
I have reconfigured LyX, and spellcheck is not grayed out.
I have tried to muck around with the preferences file to point directly to the
aspell.exe file.
This should not be necessary.
I keep getting the error dialog, "The spellchecker could not be started. No
word lists can be found for the language "en_US"."
Any help would be appreciated
Along with the dictionaries, did you install the Aspell 6 data files
(http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/Aspell6/aspelldata-0.60.4-root.exe)?
LyX 1.4.1 needs Aspell version 6, but my impression is that version 6
is not yet a stable release, so the preferred route seems to be to
install 5 and then add the "data files", which are the necessary
modifications to 5 to let LyX 1.4.1 work with it.
On another note, Alt-F4 does not close the lyx application window. Meta
bindings work in other cases, and I can modify stuff in my cua.bind but M-F4
binding to lyx-quid does nothing, although C-F4 works. All windows apps should
responding to alt-f4, so this is annoying to me...
Interestingly, Microsoft itself has been to know to ship Windows
applications (or at least applets) that do not respond to Alt-F4. I know
this because I lost the use of my mouse one time during a partial system
crash and could not kill the window I was in using the keyboard. (I
don't recall which applet it was, but it did not have a File->Exit menu
option, either.)
Anyway, I use cua.bind and M-F4 kills LyX 1.4.1 for me. Did you modify
cua.bind to load any other binding files after the line that binds M-F4
to lyx-quit? If so, could the binding be overwritten in one of the
loaded files?
/Paul
