On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Dr. Joachim K. Rennstich <rennst...@fordham.edu> wrote: > I am successfully working with Lyx 1.6.1 and my installation of coco-Aspell > on my Mac with OS X 10.5.6. I have not been able to get the spelling checker > to ever learn a word. Under "Preferences > Language Settings > Spellchecker" > I have an option to add a Personal Dictionary "Other than the default" - > since this default doesn't seem to work, how can manually add personal > dictionary? What kind of file do I need to create that will show in the > dialog box as a selectable file? A simple .txt file (e.g., personaldict.txt) > won't work. > > Any suggestions would be most welcome - thanks in advance!
cocoAspell seems to want user dictionaries to be placed in ~/Library/Spelling. It should work, therefore, if you enter ~/Library/Spelling/mydictionary (or whatever filename you want) into LyX > Preferences > Language Settings > Spelling > Personal Dictionary. Bennett
