On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > > > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > >> Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > >> > >>> I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have > >>> no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) > >>> or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. > >>> > >>> I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several > >>> times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences > > >>> Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. > >>> > >>> Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by > >>> restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. > >>> > >>> :(( > >>> > >>> Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? > >> > >> Did you build LyX yourself? > >> If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? > > > > > > I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults > > came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this > > ought to be a default instead of an option. > > You did not tell me, how you build it. > Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for > developers installed. > In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the > logs.
The build ran fine after autoconfig was used. I glanced through the output, and seeing nothing odd ran make and then make install. All per the quick directions. > > The other LyX version is a Debian package. I'm pretty certain that > > would be built with the spellchecking turned on, as it makes no sense to > > not enable that for the masses... > > I cannot judge the debian build. I don't have it. > But surely sometimes things making no sense happen. My comment was only about the fact that I expect the build to be normal. Spell checking has always worked before. Is there some place within LyX's files where the spell checker is noted? I couldn't find anything on a quick scan... Kenward -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church. --attrib. to Ferdinand Magellan by R. Ingersoll
