David Bickel <davidbickel.com+lists <at> Gmail.com> writes:
>
> After upgrading from version 1.6 to 2.0 (Windows Vista), I no longer
> have access to the words the system recorded whenever I checked
> spelling and told it to "Add" a word it flagged as misspelled. I have
> no idea where those words were stored. Is there a way I can get
> version 2.0 to use them?
>
Disclaimer: I'm answering from memory (and I'm on a Linux box, so I can't check
my memory).
I'm pretty sure you are using Aspell as the spellchecker. Aspell records words
you've added in a dictionary that I believe is named 'personal.pws'. Depending
on whether Aspell is installed for all users or just one user, that could end up
being in any of several places. So my suggestion is to use Vista's file search
capability to look for files by that name (you may find more than one if you've
been adding words in the version of Aspell that LyX 2.0 installed). In fact, I
suggest that you start up LyX 2.0, create a dummy document, insert a word that
Aspell won't believe ("HonestPolitician", all one word, works on more than one
level) and add it when Aspell laughs at you. Now do the search.
The personal dictionaries are just text files, so once you find them (hopefully
there are now two, old and new), just open them both in Notepad, copy all the
good words over to the new one (it will be obvious which is which), delete your
pseudoword from the new one, save it and test to see if spell-checking in LyX
2.0 now recognizes words you added in 1.6.
Paul
