Spellchecking on LyX/Mac

[Bruce Pourciau]

After going without a spellchecker for years on LyX/Mac, I'm ready to  
take the plunge. Reading about installing cocoAspell on the LyX Wiki  
made me nervous, though: sounds like it often fails to work, and it's  
unclear how recent the instructions are. Anyone out there with good  
spellchecking experiences with LyX and the Mac? I'm a Mac guy and not  
a Terminal guy, so installation needs to be pretty easy or I'm going  
to screw it up. I would just love some simple, step-by-step help.


Bruce
LyX 1.6.5 for Mac

Re: Spellchecking on LyX/Mac

[Richard Heck]

On 07/21/2010 12:41 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
After going without a spellchecker for years on LyX/Mac, I'm ready to 
take the plunge. Reading about installing cocoAspell on the LyX Wiki 
made me nervous, though: sounds like it often fails to work, and it's 
unclear how recent the instructions are. Anyone out there with good 
spellchecking experiences with LyX and the Mac? I'm a Mac guy and not 
a Terminal guy, so installation needs to be pretty easy or I'm going 
to screw it up. I would just love some simple, step-by-step help.


I believe 1.6.7 includes much better spelling support for Mac. But this 
may only be in a version that Stephen Witt did. Trying asking on 
lyx-devel about it.


rh

Re: Spellchecking on LyX/Mac

[BH]

2010/7/21 Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net:
 On 07/21/2010 12:41 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:

 After going without a spellchecker for years on LyX/Mac, I'm ready to take
 the plunge. Reading about installing cocoAspell on the LyX Wiki made me
 nervous, though: sounds like it often fails to work, and it's unclear how
 recent the instructions are. Anyone out there with good spellchecking
 experiences with LyX and the Mac? I'm a Mac guy and not a Terminal guy, so
 installation needs to be pretty easy or I'm going to screw it up. I would
 just love some simple, step-by-step help.

 I believe 1.6.7 includes much better spelling support for Mac. But this may
 only be in a version that Stephen Witt did. Trying asking on lyx-devel about
 it.

To my knowledge, the instructions on the wiki for getting cocoAspell
to work with LyX are not out of date, and you can follow them without
using the Terminal at all. It should work. So try it, and report back
any troubles you might have.

Stephen has native spellchecking support for the upcoming LyX-2.0 (for
which the 5th alpha was recently released). You might try that to see
if it works for you (and report back to the list with any positive or
negative experiences), but be aware that this alpha release is not
something I'd recommend using for serious work.

BH

Spellchecking on LyX/Mac

[Bruce Pourciau]

After going without a spellchecker for years on LyX/Mac, I'm ready to  
take the plunge. Reading about installing cocoAspell on the LyX Wiki  
made me nervous, though: sounds like it often fails to work, and it's  
unclear how recent the instructions are. Anyone out there with good  
spellchecking experiences with LyX and the Mac? I'm a Mac guy and not  
a Terminal guy, so installation needs to be pretty easy or I'm going  
to screw it up. I would just love some simple, step-by-step help.


Bruce
LyX 1.6.5 for Mac

Re: Spellchecking on LyX/Mac

[Richard Heck]

On 07/21/2010 12:41 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
After going without a spellchecker for years on LyX/Mac, I'm ready to 
take the plunge. Reading about installing cocoAspell on the LyX Wiki 
made me nervous, though: sounds like it often fails to work, and it's 
unclear how recent the instructions are. Anyone out there with good 
spellchecking experiences with LyX and the Mac? I'm a Mac guy and not 
a Terminal guy, so installation needs to be pretty easy or I'm going 
to screw it up. I would just love some simple, step-by-step help.


I believe 1.6.7 includes much better spelling support for Mac. But this 
may only be in a version that Stephen Witt did. Trying asking on 
lyx-devel about it.


rh

Re: Spellchecking on LyX/Mac

[BH]

2010/7/21 Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net:
 On 07/21/2010 12:41 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:

 After going without a spellchecker for years on LyX/Mac, I'm ready to take
 the plunge. Reading about installing cocoAspell on the LyX Wiki made me
 nervous, though: sounds like it often fails to work, and it's unclear how
 recent the instructions are. Anyone out there with good spellchecking
 experiences with LyX and the Mac? I'm a Mac guy and not a Terminal guy, so
 installation needs to be pretty easy or I'm going to screw it up. I would
 just love some simple, step-by-step help.

 I believe 1.6.7 includes much better spelling support for Mac. But this may
 only be in a version that Stephen Witt did. Trying asking on lyx-devel about
 it.

To my knowledge, the instructions on the wiki for getting cocoAspell
to work with LyX are not out of date, and you can follow them without
using the Terminal at all. It should work. So try it, and report back
any troubles you might have.

Stephen has native spellchecking support for the upcoming LyX-2.0 (for
which the 5th alpha was recently released). You might try that to see
if it works for you (and report back to the list with any positive or
negative experiences), but be aware that this alpha release is not
something I'd recommend using for serious work.

BH

Spellchecking on LyX/Mac

[Bruce Pourciau]

After going without a spellchecker for years on LyX/Mac, I'm ready to  
take the plunge. Reading about installing cocoAspell on the LyX Wiki  
made me nervous, though: sounds like it often fails to work, and it's  
unclear how recent the instructions are. Anyone out there with good  
spellchecking experiences with LyX and the Mac? I'm a Mac guy and not  
a Terminal guy, so installation needs to be pretty easy or I'm going  
to screw it up. I would just love some simple, step-by-step help.


Bruce
LyX 1.6.5 for Mac

Re: Spellchecking on LyX/Mac

[Richard Heck]

On 07/21/2010 12:41 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
After going without a spellchecker for years on LyX/Mac, I'm ready to 
take the plunge. Reading about installing cocoAspell on the LyX Wiki 
made me nervous, though: sounds like it often fails to work, and it's 
unclear how recent the instructions are. Anyone out there with good 
spellchecking experiences with LyX and the Mac? I'm a Mac guy and not 
a Terminal guy, so installation needs to be pretty easy or I'm going 
to screw it up. I would just love some simple, step-by-step help.


I believe 1.6.7 includes much better spelling support for Mac. But this 
may only be in a version that Stephen Witt did. Trying asking on 
lyx-devel about it.


rh

Re: Spellchecking on LyX/Mac

[BH]

2010/7/21 Richard Heck :
> On 07/21/2010 12:41 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
>>
>> After going without a spellchecker for years on LyX/Mac, I'm ready to take
>> the plunge. Reading about installing cocoAspell on the LyX Wiki made me
>> nervous, though: sounds like it often fails to work, and it's unclear how
>> recent the instructions are. Anyone out there with good spellchecking
>> experiences with LyX and the Mac? I'm a Mac guy and not a Terminal guy, so
>> installation needs to be pretty easy or I'm going to screw it up. I would
>> just love some simple, step-by-step help.
>>
> I believe 1.6.7 includes much better spelling support for Mac. But this may
> only be in a version that Stephen Witt did. Trying asking on lyx-devel about
> it.

To my knowledge, the instructions on the wiki for getting cocoAspell
to work with LyX are not out of date, and you can follow them without
using the Terminal at all. It should work. So try it, and report back
any troubles you might have.

Stephen has native spellchecking support for the upcoming LyX-2.0 (for
which the 5th alpha was recently released). You might try that to see
if it works for you (and report back to the list with any positive or
negative experiences), but be aware that this alpha release is not
something I'd recommend using for serious work.

BH