On Nov 7, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Stephan Witt wrote:
>>>>>>>>> ...Am 29.10.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Christopher Menzel:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Greetings LyX users,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The aspell-based spellchecker in LyX does not appear to be happy
>>>>>>>>>> checking a document containing a Spanish name that includes the
>>>>>>>>>> character ú. Specifically, the name seems throw the checker pretty
>>>>>>>>>> seriously off balance; it begins to stop on perfectly ordinary words
>>>>>>>>>> that occur in the document a word or two *after* a word that it
>>>>>>>>>> apparently isn't recognizing internally -- for example, it asked if
>>>>>>>>>> I wanted to replace the word "that" with "bisection", where "that"
>>>>>>>>>> occurred two words after "bijection", which was clearly the word it
>>>>>>>>>> had stopped on internally. Is there a solution to this beyond
>>>>>>>>>> avoiding non-English unicode characters?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Sorry, I've no solution but a question.
>>>>>>>>> You're using LyX 1.6.7? Which platform?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 1.6.7 on a Mac, latest version of Snow Leopard.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Interestingly... there are 2 options to use aspell then.
>>>>>>> What's your setup exactly? What did you do to make aspell work?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> IIRC, I installed a package that added a System Preferences thingy.
>>>>>> Beyond that I don't recall doing anything. Spellchecking just worked.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd guess it is cocoaSpell...
>>>>
>>>> Yes, that is correct.
>>>>
>>>>> After upgrade to Snow Leopard I don't have it anymore.
>>>>> I'll check it on another system...
>>>>>
>>>>> To be sure: are you able to send me a test case?
>>>>
>>>> Sent to you directly.
>>>
>>> I tried it and I cannot reproduce your problem.
>>>
>>> What I did:
>>> * install cocoaSpell
>>> * start LyX 1.6.7
>>> * open preferences, goto language -> spellcheck
>>> * select aspell and apply
>>> * press F7 then Ignore until end of document
>
> Sorry, not clear enough... here i had no error.
> All is working with aspell (NOT library) at this point.
> Than I tried the other route to reproduce the problem.
>
>>> * reopen preferences, goto language -> spellcheck
>>> * select aspell(library) and apply
>>> * F7 => error message: no word lists for en_US
>>> * paste into the "Alternative language" field of spellcheck preferences:
>>> /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias
>>> * F7 => error message: no word lists for ""
>>> * so aspell(library) seems to not work here
>>>
>>> Please tell me, which way is yours?
>>
>> I installed cocoAspell; and, just in case, I just now reinstalled (ver 2.1).
>> And, except for documents containing ú and the like, spellchecking works; I
>> don't get the errors you are reporting.
>
> I'd like to know which aspell configuration in LyX's preferences you're using.
Well, I've selected "aspell" as the executable and I didn't have anything set
as the alternative language, though I've also tried setting it to
/Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias, which
makes no difference.
> Maybe it's impossible to reproduce because I have a 2nd aspell installation
> from macports...
Right.
>>> To be sure I checked in Terminal.app my LANG value => de_DE.UTF-8
>>>
>>>> I can't get LyX 2.0alpha6 running on my iMac; crashes almost immediately.
>>>
>>> That's bad. Is it Intel Snow Leopard?
>>> What's the first few dozen lines of the crash report contents?
>>
>> Actually, it now seems to be working, so I'm not sure what the earlier
>> problem was.
>
> Good.
>
>> Moreover, the spellchecker in 2.0alpha6 does NOT have the problem with ú
>> that I'm having with the spellchecker in LyX 1.6.7.
>
> Which spell checker did you try? The Native or Aspell or both?
I've tried setting the executable to ispell and aspell. If I set it to hspell
I get an error that ispell cannot start.
> ...
>> I tried compiling my own svn version and the compile seemed to complete
>> without complaining (though this required changing some "unsigned int"
>> occurrences to "int" in Author.cpp) but the resulting binary crashes when I
>> try to run it and I don't have the time (and, most likely, the skillz) to
>> diagnose the problem. :-(
>
> The compile problem did exist only hours... you have to update your svn
> checkout.
>
> Did you follow the recipes in INSTALL.MacOSX and now it crashes?
I updated and compiled without incident and the executable seems to be working
well. In particular, no problem is caused by the presence of ú and other such
characters in the document, so the problem is becoming moot (and it's avoidable
anyway, if not ideally, simply by inserting \'{u} as ERT in place of ú).
-chris
