Am 09.07.2011 um 23:45 schrieb Paul Rubin:
> 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.
The new ones are located here:
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.0
The names are like pwl_%LANGUAGE%.dict
To find the location of the old ones try the following command:
C:\> aspell config personal-path
Stephan
