Olivier Ripoll wrote:
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Olivier Ripoll schrieb:
It works fine here (no crash yet). As for the previous versions (svn1
and svn2), the installer detects that I have the dictionaries
installed (English and French), but spell checking fails complaining:
The Spellchecker could not be started
No words list can be found for the language "en_US".
I see the same message in the console when I start lyx from there.
I couldn't reproduce this problem. Does Aspell work with your existing
LyX 1.5 installation?
I did not have 1.5 installed. So I installed yesterday the 1.5.4 from
LyX-1.5.4-1-Installer.exe. During the installation, I checked the
download of English and French dictionaries. As for 1.6, the
spellchecking does not work (same error message, but only as a popup, I
do not see it in the console if I start LyX from there... probably some
debug option).
Ok, I managed to get aspell to work ... finally. I had installed 1.5.4
for all users, so its aspell dictionaries were not in the same place as
1.6 expected. Copying them into the right tree made LyX 1.6 find them.
It seems there was only the German dictionary there, so spell-checking
in English could not work (*)
Then I de-installed everything from aspell and both lyx versions (except
LyX 1.6 user preferences), and I noticed LyX 1.6alpha2 installer was
still pretending that I had English and French dictionaries already
installed. Puzzling, since a search for files/folders containing the
word "aspell" on the hard drive returned no matches (same in the registry).
At that step, spell-checking failed again.
I then installed by hand the dictionaries (aspell6-fr-0.50-3.exe and
aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe) but spell-checking was now failing to find some
"iso" "cset" files IIRC. Re-installing 1.5.4 for me only, then
de-installing it solved the issue. In the "add/remove software", I
noticed that the difference seems to be the presence of "aspell data". I
found some installer file for it in the uploads of the wiki
(aspelldata-0.60.4-root.exe). I might use it in the future to avoid
installing/removing 1.5.
So, to summarise:
- LyX 1.5.4 probably failed because it was looking in the wrong tree for
English/French dictionaries (all users vs. my user name).
- LyX 1.6alpha2 seems to fail to install aspelldata and dictionaries.
- Now, spell-checking works fine :-)
Best regards,
Olivier
(*) I however do not think I ever asked the installers to install the
German dictionary... I do not write German documents (well, I hardly
speak German anyway) Perhaps to do with my regional settings (switzerland)
