How to edit

2009-02-04 Thread Dr. Joachim K. Rennstich

The Lyx Wiki for the Mac suggests the following:
If at this point you are unable to save new words to the personal  
dictionary you will need to edit the file at /usr/local/etc/ 
aspell.conf. Remove the line "home-dir $HOME/Library/Preferences/ 
aspell" (line 38 including blanks), or disable it by adding a "#" sign  
at the begining.



How exactly can I do this? I was until now not able to save new words  
to the personal dictionary. Thanks for your help!


-Joachim


Re: (coco) Aspell and Lyx - how to add a Personal Dictionary file?

2009-01-15 Thread Dr. Joachim K. Rennstich
Unfortunately, that didn't do the trick. I typed in the path (from  
User/ on). Maybe that was wrong? I assume, I don't have to actually  
create any file?


Thanks again for the fast response!


On Jan 15, 2009, at 4:03 PM, "Bennett Helm" wrote:


On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Joachim K. Rennstich
<> wrote:
I am successfully working with Lyx 1.6.1 and my installation of  
coco-Aspell
on my Mac with OS X 10.5.6. I have not been able to get the  
spelling checker
to ever learn a word. Under "Preferences > Language Settings >  
Spellchecker"
I have an option to add a Personal Dictionary "Other than the  
default" -
since this default doesn't seem to work, how can manually add  
personal
dictionary? What kind of file do I need to create that will show in  
the
dialog box as a selectable file? A simple .txt file (e.g.,  
personaldict.txt)

won't work.

Any suggestions would be most welcome - thanks in advance!


cocoAspell seems to want user dictionaries to be placed in
~/Library/Spelling. It should work, therefore, if you enter
~/Library/Spelling/mydictionary (or whatever filename you want) into
LyX > Preferences > Language Settings > Spelling > Personal
Dictionary.

Bennett


(coco) Aspell and Lyx - how to add a Personal Dictionary file?

2009-01-15 Thread Dr . Joachim K . Rennstich
I am successfully working with Lyx 1.6.1 and my installation of coco- 
Aspell on my Mac with OS X 10.5.6. I have not been able to get the  
spelling checker to ever learn a word. Under "Preferences > Language  
Settings > Spellchecker" I have an option to add a Personal Dictionary  
"Other than the default" - since this default doesn't seem to work,  
how can manually add personal dictionary? What kind of file do I need  
to create that will show in the dialog box as a selectable file? A  
simple .txt file (e.g., personaldict.txt) won't work.


Any suggestions would be most welcome - thanks in advance!

-Joachim







Import RTF > Lyx 1.6 error

2008-12-04 Thread Dr. Joachim K. Rennstich
I am trying to import a RTF document into Lyx 1.6 (Mac OS X 10.5.5,  
Intel) through the "File > Import > Rich Text Format..." command but  
get the following error:



An error occurred whilst running rtf2latex2e 'whateverfile.rtf'



I have been looking up rtf2latex2e and discovered that apparently it  
is not supported on Mac OS X unless you compile the UNIX version. My  
question is: how can I make the command work? What do I need to  
install in addition and how can I do that?


Thanks
- Joachim


Lyx and BibDesk connection

2008-11-24 Thread Dr . Joachim K . Rennstich
I am new user to Lyx and I have been working on a Mac (10.5) with  
TeXShop and BibDesk successfully so far. I just updated to the latest  
Mac install for TeX and gave Lyx another try in v1.6 and want to do  
the switch. Here's my problem - whenever I try to send something from  
BibDesk to Lyx, I get the following error msg:


Unable to open the LyX pipe at "/Users/jrennstich/Library/ 
Application Support/LyX-1.6/.lyxpipe.in" for writing.  You should  
quit LyX and possibly remove the pipe manually if this error  
persists.  The underlying system error code was 6 (Device not  
configured).



I saw the post here http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Environment about changing  
the .MacOSX/environment.plist but I am simply not able to find the  
relevant files: neither the .lyxpipe.in, nor ~/.MacOSX/ 
environment.plist.


Any help how to link Lyx and BibDesk successfully and help Lyx and  
BibDesk identify my .bib libraries would be greatly appreciated. I  
couldn't find that information in a search on here, my apologies, if  
this has been covered before :-( Needless to say, since I cannot find  
the lyxpipe.in nor the environment.plist, I am one of those sad Mac- 
users, who need a GUI and some guidance if that won't let me do the  
stuff I need to do... ;-)


Thx,
-Joachim