On 16/04/2011 4:52 PM, Jim Oldfield wrote:
One problem I have been having ever since I started working with Lyx is that
unless I installed aspell along with the Lyx installer or Alternative Lyx
Installer, I was never able to get spell working. In other words, when I
install aspell and Lyx separately, spell checker does not work whatever
tweaking I tried.
Probably you haven't Tools> Reconfigure after installing aspell (or
any other spell checker or latex class).
I am having both the same problems too:
1) No spelling engine or dictionary is installed with LyX
2) Even if I install Aspell and the English dictionary myself, it's not an
option in LyX preferences.
For (2) I reconfigured and then restarted LyX and even uninstalled/reinstallied
LyX, and the Aspell option still didn't appear in prefs.
You would need to make aspell visible to the configure script by putting
the path to aspell.exe in your PATH environment variable or
alternatively in the PATH in LyX preferences. Then reconfigure LyX,
close and start LyX again. If it does not work after that then there is
indeed a problem.
I think there is an even worse bug here:
3) When LyX could not spell check some (or all) text, it just claimed to have
completed the spell check successfully. It should instead report an error, so
the user at least knows that there could be spelling mistakes.
Agreed. It should report something. Either no spellchecking engine was
found, or dictionaries were not found for the requested language. Then
the user can act accordingly.
Jim
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Julien
