Thank you for your advice Bennett. Unfortunately, it has not worked.
When attempting to use the spell checker I now get an error message
saying, "The file /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-
en-6.0-0 is not in the proper format". The directory is correct, in
that, that is where aspell is located. I have removed cocoAspell and
reinstalled to see if that would do anything. The spell checker
worked once and then refused to work again.
Tristan.
Begin forwarded message:
From: Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 13 September 2006 10:56:14 PM
To: Tristan Krautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: LyX and aspell
On Sep 13, 2006, at 1:12 AM, Tristan Krautz wrote:
Hey All,
I have recently installed LyX for Mac OS X and cocoAspell. I am
not able to get aspell to work correctly. At first I got an error
message saying the specified dictionary could not be found. I
addressed this by pasting the path to the dictionary in the
"Alternative language" field in spelling preferences. I longer get
an error message when checking for incorrect spelling.
However, when I click the button to start the spell checker a
window pops up and disappears, followed by a dialogue box telling
me that the spell check is complete. None of the spelling errors
are identified. Furthermore, I can only activate the spell checker
when the text bar is at the very start of the document.
I am new to this, and any advice would be appreciated.
cocoAspell seems to work for some and not for others. I recently
revised the LyXOnMac wiki page to make the option of cocoAspell
more prominent because from what I could tell it was working better
than in the past. However, it is still not consistent.
What I've found some users need to do is to open the Terminal, and
then go to the directory where the aspell library is installed; for
me this involves entering the following:
cd /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0
(You might have it installed at ~/Library/... instead.)
Then (making sure you're in an administrative account on your Mac)
type:
sudo make install
followed by your password when it asks. At that point, make sure
LyX is open, select Tools > Reconfigure, and restart LyX. Double
check to make sure that aspell is selected in your spelling
preferences (LyX > Preferences > Spellchecker > Spellchecker
executable), and hopefully things will work.
Let us know if this is successful for you.
Bennett
