Thanks for replying. However I'm not thinking of installing LyX just now.
I'm asking if the LyX repository contains a Windows installer for ASpell, as
the webpage seems to imply.
Ciarán.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Liviu Andronic" <[email protected]>
To: "Ciarán Ó Duibhín" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 4:12 AM
Subject: Re: Aspell for Windows at LyX?
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).
Liviu
