On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Ciarán Ó Duibhín <[email protected]> wrote: > May I ask a question here about the webpage http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/Aspell > ? > > The page says: > > "If you need to install Aspell separately on windows, it can be downloaded > from the LyX repositories: > > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/aspell6-windows/ " > > To install Aspell separately on Windows is what I would like to do, but > there seems to be nothing but a short text message at sourceforge.net, and > only a very old (2002) Windows installer at http://aspell.net/win32/ > > Now, the sentence quoted above seems to say I can download a (hopefully > up-to-date) Aspell installer for Windows from that LyX ftp site; and > further, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Aspell says that "the LyX project > has long solved the Windows packaging problem by forking Aspell". > > But, as far as I can see, the ftp site contains only dictionaries. Is this > so, or am I missing something? > To my knowledge the Windows builds of LyX do not support Aspell. Use Hunspell (or Enchant).
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