I have the same problem on a Mac (Leopard), and I do have admin. privileges.
Marsh Feldman On 2:59 PM, Daniel Ng wrote:
Hi all I have downloaded the latest version of Lyx for windows and having troubles installing the spell checker function on my windows 7 machine. I installed Aspell on to my computer and found that the spell checker still fails to work. I also have obtained the latest English dictionaries and placed them under Aspell program data under folders data and dictionary and still obtain errors while using lyx. The current error that I obtain when trying to use the spell checker is " Spellchecker cannot be loaded, C:\programdata\aspell\Dictionaries/en-common.rws cannot be opened for reading" I have searched on google, Lyx, Aspell, wiki documents and found nothing. During this time of trying to actually solve this problem, there is a clear lack of documentation for installing Aspell and installing the dictionary files for windows as the program is more Linux orientated. As other guides state you should copy the dictionaries into the Aspell directory, is this correct? Other guides in linux state you should compile these dictionaries. So I am currently confused on what i am suppose to do. Is there any chance of someone providing a step by step instructions for installing Aspell and dictionaries on to lyx for windows? Or providing information in correcting my problem. Thanks Daniel
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