Aspell and language de_CH
Hello How can I get aspell to use the language German Switzerland (de_CH)? If I chose "Deutsch (neue Rechtschreibung)" in the document properties (format/document) I get an error message: The file /usr/lib/aspell/ngerman could not be opened for reading. If I chose "Deutsch" the language German Germany (de_DE) is used. Thanks! David
Re: aspell / problems with umlauts
Hmmm it seems as if I were not able to reproduce this behavior. I tried again and set LANG=en_US and from that time on it worked out. Thanks for your help! Cz. On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:10:14 +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: But this did not work twice, meaning when I re-run the spellchecker it thinks the text is English. The same situation for all other German paragraphs and now, after I restarted LyX, it thinks, the entire doc is in English. Is this a known bug (LyX 1.4.1), is there a solution? No, it works for me. Can you provide an example file? Jürgen -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
Re: aspell / problems with umlauts
Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: > But this did not work twice, meaning when I re-run the spellchecker it > thinks the text is English. The same situation for all other German > paragraphs and now, after I restarted LyX, it thinks, the entire doc is > in English. > > Is this a known bug (LyX 1.4.1), is there a solution? No, it works for me. Can you provide an example file? Jürgen
Re: Re: aspell / problems with umlauts
Hi Jürgen, thanks for the advice! In the beginning it looked as if it worked out: I selected one the affected paragraphs, changed the language to German and run the spellchecker. But this did not work twice, meaning when I re-run the spellchecker it thinks the text is English. The same situation for all other German paragraphs and now, after I restarted LyX, it thinks, the entire doc is in English. Is this a known bug (LyX 1.4.1), is there a solution? Thanks! Cz. Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:14:58 +0200 Von: Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Betreff: Re: aspell / problems with umlauts > Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: > > Words containing an umlaut (äöü) are not properly recognized, e.g. > the > > word "für" is suggested to be replaced by "für". Accepting the > > replacement leads, in turn, to an "unrecognized word" error. > > > > Can anyone please give me a hint what to tweak in order to get it > running > > ...? > > You have to start LyX with non-unicode LANG settings, e.g. > LANG=de_DE lyx > or > LANG=en_EN lyx > > Jürgen -- Echte DSL-Flatrate dauerhaft für 0,- Euro*. Nur noch kurze Zeit! "Feel free" mit GMX DSL: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl
Re: aspell / problems with umlauts
Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: > Words containing an umlaut (äöü) are not properly recognized, e.g. the > word "für" is suggested to be replaced by "für". Accepting the > replacement leads, in turn, to an "unrecognized word" error. > > Can anyone please give me a hint what to tweak in order to get it running > ...? You have to start LyX with non-unicode LANG settings, e.g. LANG=de_DE lyx or LANG=en_EN lyx Jürgen
LyX 1.4.2, Aspell and second languages
Hi, Under Win XP, I have Aspell loaded in C:\Aspell, including the German (de_DE) dictionaries. In the LyX 1.4.2 settings, I have de_DE listed as the alternate language. (The preferences file has \use_alt_language true \alternate_language "de_DE" in it.) However, if I try to spell-check a document, LyX pops up a complaint that no word lists can be found for the language "de_DE". LyX 1.4.1 has no problem spell-checking the same document. Is there some extra incantation I need to do somewhere to get 1.4.2 to use the German word lists? Thanks, /Paul
aspell / problems with umlauts
Hello on the list! I have a problem concerning aspell: The document I write is in English, but my university wants me to write some paragraphs in German. OK, I select them, change the language accordingly, installed the aspell-de package and check the spelling. Words containing an umlaut (äöü) are not properly recognized, e.g. the word "für" is suggested to be replaced by "für". Accepting the replacement leads, in turn, to an "unrecognized word" error. Can anyone please give me a hint what to tweak in order to get it running ...? Thanks in advance! Cz. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
Re: Fwd: aspell on XP
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: I finally got around to trying this on my home PC, which runs XP Home rather than XP Pro. Under XP Home, alt-F4 did *not* kill cmd.exe. On my laptop (XP Pro), it does. I haven't had a chance to try the XP Pro machine in my office (as I'm assiduously avoiding going anywhere near the office). My luck ran out and I ended up at the office. It turns out that alt-F4 does not kill either LyX or cmd.exe here (XP Pro). So my XP Pro laptop, where it does work, is apparently the outlier, although I have no explanation for why it works there. /Paul I tried closing LyX with Alt-f4 with LyX1.4.1 and it didn't work, but with Joost's 1.4.2, closing with alt-f4 works if installed in either C:\LyXx or C:\Program Files\LyXx (path space), so it must be 'an obvious fact since those are the most deceptive.' -- Stephen "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." SH: Sherlock Holmes (Doyle)
Re: Fwd: aspell on XP
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: I finally got around to trying this on my home PC, which runs XP Home rather than XP Pro. Under XP Home, alt-F4 did *not* kill cmd.exe. On my laptop (XP Pro), it does. I haven't had a chance to try the XP Pro machine in my office (as I'm assiduously avoiding going anywhere near the office). My luck ran out and I ended up at the office. It turns out that alt-F4 does not kill either LyX or cmd.exe here (XP Pro). So my XP Pro laptop, where it does work, is apparently the outlier, although I have no explanation for why it works there. /Paul Using either a .lnk or a .pif doesn't change the inability to exit cmd.exe using alt-F4; I wonder if your laptop has an OEM modified installation of Win XP? I guess it is not likely, but the win98 default .pif file with more choices shows several keyboard shortcuts, but not alt-f4. But I think alt-f4 could be added to such a menu by a sourcerer, or even enabled as undocumented behavior without a menu. Must be a path with spaces problem ;-) Stephen
Re: Fwd: aspell on XP
Paul A. Rubin wrote: I finally got around to trying this on my home PC, which runs XP Home rather than XP Pro. Under XP Home, alt-F4 did *not* kill cmd.exe. On my laptop (XP Pro), it does. I haven't had a chance to try the XP Pro machine in my office (as I'm assiduously avoiding going anywhere near the office). My luck ran out and I ended up at the office. It turns out that alt-F4 does not kill either LyX or cmd.exe here (XP Pro). So my XP Pro laptop, where it does work, is apparently the outlier, although I have no explanation for why it works there. /Paul
Re: Fwd: aspell on XP
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Harris wrote: Back in the Windows 9x era, I'm pretty sure that a command window was designed not to be too easily killed (presumably lest one lose work, possibly lest one leave an orphan process around), so I would not be surprised if alt-F4 did not kill it. If you clicked the X (close) box in the upper right, you got a stern warning that something dire might happen if you really closed it that way. I haven't seen that warning in XP Pro, and if you can kill the shell with the X box, no reason why alt-F4 shouldn't do so as well. /Paul Well, does the nag come from a .lnk or a .pif? #40 http://www.bootstrike.com/WinXP/faq.html#40 ... "Furthermore, it turns out that there are TWO ways to run CMD.EXE in Windows XP, although this fact is not documented anywhere. CMD.EXE can be run from a shortcut (a .lnk file, which is the way that the Command Prompt window is set up "out-of-the-box" in Windows XP) or from a Program Information File (a .pif file). (COMMAND.COM, on the other hand, can ONLY be run from a .pif file, since it is a .com program and not a .exe program.) I have found the .pif file method for running CMD.EXE to be superior in most respects. For one thing, the .pif file "Properties" dialog gives you control of a lot more of the "compatibility" options. More importantly, however, most of my DOS applications simply run better when CMD.EXE is invoked by a .pif file. The most visible difference is in the colors within the Command Prompt window. My favorite DOS-based source code editor, for example, displays with a hideous green background color when run under a CMD.EXE shortcut, but runs correctly (with a black background) when run under CMD.EXE invoked via a .pif file. The DOS full-screen "edit" command has similar problems with colors when run under a shortcut, but again runs correctly under a .pif file. There are two minor annoyances, however, when running CMD.EXE from a .pif file: * Any switches that you specify in the "dir" command (such as "/w") are ignored. The "dir" command uses ONLY the options you have set in the environment via the "DIRCMD" variable. * If you are sitting at a command prompt, not running a command or application, and you try to terminate the window by clicking the "X" box in the upper right-hand corner of the window frame, you get a "nag" dialog. The "exit" command does work correctly, without the nag." SH: I suspect this change of behavior from Win9x to XP Pro is due to an out-of-the-box OEM .lnk file, rather than a spiffy .pif file. After doing about 3 hours of research on this, I couldn't resist Sharing the wealth of knowledge :-) Stephen
Re: Fwd: aspell on XP
Steve Harris wrote: I researched and found a few reports complaining about not being able to close cmd.exe with alt-f4. I found no report of being able to close cmd.exe shell with alt-f4. I think Paul has a very talented machine. Boy, you sure wouldn't know it from its general performance! :-) I don't think it is meant or built to close under native Windows, so use "exit" if you don't want to use the mouse. Back in the Windows 9x era, I'm pretty sure that a command window was designed not to be too easily killed (presumably lest one lose work, possibly lest one leave an orphan process around), so I would not be surprised if alt-F4 did not kill it. If you clicked the X (close) box in the upper right, you got a stern warning that something dire might happen if you really closed it that way. I haven't seen that warning in XP Pro, and if you can kill the shell with the X box, no reason why alt-F4 shouldn't do so as well. /Paul
Re: Fwd: aspell on XP
Ed Gatzke wrote: This stuff is crazy. I tried posting on some MS "help" pages, and the "MS experts" suggested I use Alt-Space then C, which breaks the standard that Alt-F4 closes everything, like hitting the big red X. I found a workaround. http://www.autohotkey.com/download/ AutoHotKey is a free download that makes use of the Windows key in conjunction with another letter. So you start AutoHotKey (I made a desktop shortcut)and when the Windows key is pressed with the k (for kill) key the active program will close if it's cmd.exe or another app. (repeats). Stays resident until you close it or shutdown. Win-key with k-key Sends the keystrokes: alt, space, Shift C to make a capital C. #k::send ! +C cut and paste into the kill.ahk file; I read the quick tutorial. Regards, Stephen
Re: Fwd: aspell on XP
Ed Gatzke wrote: There is a python.exe file in the same directory as the lyx.exe executable. Python opens what looks like a cmd.exe window that you can't close with Alt-F4 either. I wonder if lyx.exe is somehow running in a python shell? No. LyX runs Python scripts for various things, but LyX itself is not written in Python (nor started by a Python script). On my laptop, alt-F4 kills Python windows. /Paul
Re: Fwd: aspell on XP
Ed Gatzke wrote: I have tried cmd.exe on about 6 xp machines, Alt-F4 does nothing on any of them for cmd.exe. I finally got around to trying this on my home PC, which runs XP Home rather than XP Pro. Under XP Home, alt-F4 did *not* kill cmd.exe. On my laptop (XP Pro), it does. I haven't had a chance to try the XP Pro machine in my office (as I'm assiduously avoiding Some of the machines I tried to kill cmd.exe on were NOT XP home ( My new work desktop and my wifes work laptop). I'm not sure what goes on in that fleeting shell, but according to the task manager I use, when you run lyx.exe directly it is not running in a shell. LyX does, however, make extensive use of shell scripts (for converting graphics, running the configuration script, etc.), so it may be running some quick script at that point. There is a python.exe file in the same directory as the lyx.exe executable. Python opens what looks like a cmd.exe window that you can't close with Alt-F4 either. I wonder if lyx.exe is somehow running in a python shell? No, I think Ed mentioned he used Cygwin. Luckily, Enrico tutored me (everything beautiful belongs to Enrico and the ugly is all mine). I have tried starting LyX all different ways, from the cygwin shell, from the desktop icon, from the bat file in Program Files / lyx, from the exe file in Program Files / LyX. None of those close with Alt-F4, but I will try the bat file hacks below. So I sort of fixed it. I'll put the lyx11.bat text at the end. I used some other file as a basis (startxwin.bat) and mostly just tacked on "run c:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\lyx-x11.exe: at the end. I start it with a desktop icon: target C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\LyX11.bat start in C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin Thanks for all your help trying to sort this out. I think if you have X11 and xterm working this will work. The problem can be duplicated here using the black/bash shell. The AutoHotkeys will work on cmd.exe and some windows apps but if LyX is started from Cygwin closing it still requires alt-f4 (with a modified startxwin.bat) on my system. It seems odd. Regards, Stephen
Re: Fwd: aspell on XP
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Ed Gatzke wrote: So, cmd.exe and command.exe when started from Start->Run both do not respond to Alt-F4 for me either. Other things started from cmd.exe command prompt do listen to Alt F4 c:\windows\system32\winmine.exe and dvdplay.exe both respond to Alt-F4. I run most of my stuff from a cygwin shell, but everything closes on Alt-F4 except cmd.exe and lyx.exe. Even when I start lyx from the desktop shortcut, it does not respond to Alt-F4. Even when I double click on the cmd.exe in windows/system32 it does not respond to F4. I have tried cmd.exe on about 6 xp machines, Alt-F4 does nothing on any of them for cmd.exe. I finally got around to trying this on my home PC, which runs XP Home rather than XP Pro. Under XP Home, alt-F4 did *not* kill cmd.exe. On my laptop (XP Pro), it does. I haven't had a chance to try the XP Pro machine in my office (as I'm assiduously avoiding going anywhere near the office). The exact lyx installer is the most recent, the 2.0 installer for 1.41 lyxwininstall/LyxWin141Complete-2.01.exe Even just running lyx.exe (not lyx.bat) appears to open a shell for a second before the application launches... Very odd, I wonder what is up. Maybe the shell is the root of all problems with Alt-F4. I'm not sure what goes on in that fleeting shell, but according to the task manager I use, when you run lyx.exe directly it is not running in a shell. LyX does, however, make extensive use of shell scripts (for converting graphics, running the configuration script, etc.), so it may be running some quick script at that point. This stuff is crazy. I tried posting on some MS "help" pages, and the "MS experts" suggested I use Alt-Space then C, which breaks the standard that Alt-F4 closes everything, like hitting the big red X. I agree it's strange, but as far back as I can remember, Microsoft's insistence that third-party developers adhere to their rules for Windows programs has not extended to their own programmers. Nor have they been philosophically consistent. Thus Windows 3.x came with an FTP client that had a GUI, but Windows 95/98 et seq. come only with a DOS FTP client -- even though Microsoft has been trying to phase out DOS in the last few iterations of Windows. I'm quite curious why you and Steve and I get three different behavior patterns from ostensibly the same OS. (I'm assuming that you and Steve are both using XP Pro, fully patched.) /Paul No, I think Ed mentioned he used Cygwin. Luckily, Enrico tutored me (everything beautiful belongs to Enrico and the ugly is all mine). When Ed starts LyX from a cygwin shell the batfile he is using leaves the (bash) shell open as a hanging process. I had that problem too and I wanted the X-server (the one in a white window,xterm) to close so that I could use it to open another program besides LyX. I mean it spawns lyx and then returns to being available separately. So I sort of fixed it. I'll put the lyx11.bat text at the end. I used some other file as a basis (startxwin.bat) and mostly just tacked on "run c:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\lyx-x11.exe: at the end. I start it with a desktop icon: target C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\LyX11.bat start in C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin I can create the problem if I start *native* LyX from the cygwin shell, then it opens a black/bash window that won't close. Otherwise I can close both the shell and lyx using alt-f4. It works ok to open from cmd.exe shell, lyx with either lyx.bat or lyx.exe and then close with alt-f4. I researched and found a few reports complaining about not being able to close cmd.exe with alt-f4. I found no report of being able to close cmd.exe shell with alt-f4. I think Paul has a very talented machine. I don't think it is meant or built to close under native Windows, so use "exit" if you don't want to use the mouse. I think if you are using cygwin to open native windows lyx rather than cygwin lyx, you could modify the startxwin.bat to lyx11.bat and point it to "run C:\lyx142\LyX14\bin\lyx11.bat" (modify appropriately) and start in: C:\lyx142\LyX14\bin (desktop icon) rather than C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\LyX11.bat the last line in startxwin.bat changed to lyx11.bat would change "run c:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\lyx-x11.exe" and would change to "run C:\lyx142\LyX14\bin\lyx.bat or lyx.exe not lyx-x11.exe I mean that I can start native LyX from an xterm window, with two separate windows that each close with alt-f4. Incidentally, the cygwin version of lyx1.4.1 runs on Windows 98 "Re: Installing LyX on Windows 98 - Solved fairly well with Cygwin" Cheers, Stephen -- cut and paste lyx11.bat @echo off SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 REM REM The path in the CYGWIN_ROOT environment variable assignment assume REM that Cygwin is installed in a directory called 'cygwin' in the root REM directory of the current drive. You will only need to modify REM CYGWIN_ROOT if you have installed Cygwin i
Re: Fwd: aspell on XP
Ed Gatzke wrote: So, cmd.exe and command.exe when started from Start->Run both do not respond to Alt-F4 for me either. Other things started from cmd.exe command prompt do listen to Alt F4 c:\windows\system32\winmine.exe and dvdplay.exe both respond to Alt-F4. I run most of my stuff from a cygwin shell, but everything closes on Alt-F4 except cmd.exe and lyx.exe. Even when I start lyx from the desktop shortcut, it does not respond to Alt-F4. Even when I double click on the cmd.exe in windows/system32 it does not respond to F4. I have tried cmd.exe on about 6 xp machines, Alt-F4 does nothing on any of them for cmd.exe. I finally got around to trying this on my home PC, which runs XP Home rather than XP Pro. Under XP Home, alt-F4 did *not* kill cmd.exe. On my laptop (XP Pro), it does. I haven't had a chance to try the XP Pro machine in my office (as I'm assiduously avoiding going anywhere near the office). The exact lyx installer is the most recent, the 2.0 installer for 1.41 lyxwininstall/LyxWin141Complete-2.01.exe Even just running lyx.exe (not lyx.bat) appears to open a shell for a second before the application launches... Very odd, I wonder what is up. Maybe the shell is the root of all problems with Alt-F4. I'm not sure what goes on in that fleeting shell, but according to the task manager I use, when you run lyx.exe directly it is not running in a shell. LyX does, however, make extensive use of shell scripts (for converting graphics, running the configuration script, etc.), so it may be running some quick script at that point. This stuff is crazy. I tried posting on some MS "help" pages, and the "MS experts" suggested I use Alt-Space then C, which breaks the standard that Alt-F4 closes everything, like hitting the big red X. I agree it's strange, but as far back as I can remember, Microsoft's insistence that third-party developers adhere to their rules for Windows programs has not extended to their own programmers. Nor have they been philosophically consistent. Thus Windows 3.x came with an FTP client that had a GUI, but Windows 95/98 et seq. come only with a DOS FTP client -- even though Microsoft has been trying to phase out DOS in the last few iterations of Windows. I'm quite curious why you and Steve and I get three different behavior patterns from ostensibly the same OS. (I'm assuming that you and Steve are both using XP Pro, fully patched.) /Paul
Re: Fwd: aspell on XP
Steve Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > Steve Harris wrote: > > > >> > >> I have LyX 1.4.2 installed and alt-f4 kills lyx but not cmd.exe > >> My keyboard requires using an F-lock key to enable standard features. > >> > > > > Hmm. I was going to ask John and Ed whether alt-F4 kills programs other > > than LyX that are being run in shells (rather than as native Windows > > apps) (if I'm expressing that distinction correctly). My suspicion was > > that maybe failure to kill cmd.exe implied inability to kill anything > > running in a shell. However, if alt-F4 kills LyX and not cmd.exe for So, cmd.exe and command.exe when started from Start->Run both do not respond to Alt-F4 for me either. Other things started from cmd.exe command prompt do listen to Alt F4 c:\windows\system32\winmine.exe and dvdplay.exe both respond to Alt-F4. I run most of my stuff from a cygwin shell, but everything closes on Alt-F4 except cmd.exe and lyx.exe. Even when I start lyx from the desktop shortcut, it does not respond to Alt-F4. Even when I double click on the cmd.exe in windows/system32 it does not respond to F4. I have tried cmd.exe on about 6 xp machines, Alt-F4 does nothing on any of them for cmd.exe. The exact lyx installer is the most recent, the 2.0 installer for 1.41 lyxwininstall/LyxWin141Complete-2.01.exe Even just running lyx.exe (not lyx.bat) appears to open a shell for a second before the application launches... Very odd, I wonder what is up. Maybe the shell is the root of all problems with Alt-F4. > > That is actually quite a good theory...because there are different > versions of installers and the original port might not have had a > "hook"(?) built into it. But it wouldn't explain a difference in > behavior at an OS level, methinks. I just tried Alt-F4 on my Win98 > machine Dos-prompt and that doesn't affect it. I thought perhaps > your system might have had an earlier compatibility mode enabled, > which would produce a different result. I'll look into it. > This stuff is crazy. I tried posting on some MS "help" pages, and the "MS experts" suggested I use Alt-Space then C, which breaks the standard that Alt-F4 closes everything, like hitting the big red X.
Re: Fwd: aspell on XP
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Harris wrote: I have LyX 1.4.2 installed and alt-f4 kills lyx but not cmd.exe My keyboard requires using an F-lock key to enable standard features. Hmm. I was going to ask John and Ed whether alt-F4 kills programs other than LyX that are being run in shells (rather than as native Windows apps) (if I'm expressing that distinction correctly). My suspicion was that maybe failure to kill cmd.exe implied inability to kill anything running in a shell. However, if alt-F4 kills LyX and not cmd.exe for you, that shoots a hole in my theory. I just tried Start->Run->Command to get the old backward-compatibility command shell. Alt-F4 won't kill that for me (I get a nag screen from Windows saying I might lose data and asking if I'm sober). I'm not sure what, if anything, that implies. Stranger and stranger ... /Paul That is actually quite a good theory...because there are different versions of installers and the original port might not have had a "hook"(?) built into it. But it wouldn't explain a difference in behavior at an OS level, methinks. I just tried Alt-F4 on my Win98 machine Dos-prompt and that doesn't affect it. I thought perhaps your system might have had an earlier compatibility mode enabled, which would produce a different result. I'll look into it. On the Wike I noticed a post about Live-Cds. It turns out that there is a scientific constellation DVD .iso called Quantian with LyX, Imagemagick, Tetex, R, etc. But the LyX is 1.3.6 Anyway the cd-sized (700mb)clusterKnoppix boots the 2.7gig Quantian HDD iso image, which frees up the cd and is faster. knoppix floppyconfig bootfrom=/dev/hda1/quantian.iso Of course if you have a dvd player you can use it directly. The Knoppix new 5.0.1 release cd works for emergencies and can also boot a fully featured 4.3gig HDD Knoppix dvd iso. Disk partitioning can be avoided this way, the .iso is on Windows, no grub or lilo. I wanted to give this idea a bit of exposure for others, you might already know about it. This stuff is called Live because it is not intended for a hard disk install. In pursuit of the elusive Alt-F4, Stephen
Re: Fwd: aspell on XP
Steve Harris wrote: I have LyX 1.4.2 installed and alt-f4 kills lyx but not cmd.exe My keyboard requires using an F-lock key to enable standard features. Hmm. I was going to ask John and Ed whether alt-F4 kills programs other than LyX that are being run in shells (rather than as native Windows apps) (if I'm expressing that distinction correctly). My suspicion was that maybe failure to kill cmd.exe implied inability to kill anything running in a shell. However, if alt-F4 kills LyX and not cmd.exe for you, that shoots a hole in my theory. I just tried Start->Run->Command to get the old backward-compatibility command shell. Alt-F4 won't kill that for me (I get a nag screen from Windows saying I might lose data and asking if I'm sober). I'm not sure what, if anything, that implies. Stranger and stranger ... /Paul
Re: Fwd: aspell on XP
John Ward wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jul 7, 2006 9:56 AM Subject: Re: aspell on XP To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Ed Gatzke wrote: Are you sure Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe? I have tried on a couple of machines and checked other groups, Alt-F4 does not kill cmd.exe for most. Well, I just opened a command window on my laptop (XP Pro), ran a command in it, hit Alt-F4 and (a) the window vanished and (b) it's not showing up on the task list. So either I killed it or I banished it to a parallel universe. :-) I haven't tried this on XP Home, though. As far as I know, I do not have ny sort of remapping or crazy application running in the background. All apps but cmd.exe and lyx.exe respond to Alt-F4. Using cua.bind, Alt-F3, F4, Alt-4 all can be mapped to kill lyx but not Alt-F4. crazy. If you have any other ideas to try out, let me know. Thanks! Well, if it works in other apps, then it presumably has not been remapped, so I'm at a loss as to what is going on. Are your machines set up to use a non-English code page? (I'm groping in the dark here.) /Paul I'm having the same issue on XP Pro. Neither Lyx 1.4.1 or cmd.exe are killed with alt-f4, while all other apps are. -John I have LyX 1.4.2 installed and alt-f4 kills lyx but not cmd.exe My keyboard requires using an F-lock key to enable standard features.
Fwd: aspell on XP
-- Forwarded message -- From: Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jul 7, 2006 9:56 AM Subject: Re: aspell on XP To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Ed Gatzke wrote: Are you sure Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe? I have tried on a couple of machines and checked other groups, Alt-F4 does not kill cmd.exe for most. Well, I just opened a command window on my laptop (XP Pro), ran a command in it, hit Alt-F4 and (a) the window vanished and (b) it's not showing up on the task list. So either I killed it or I banished it to a parallel universe. :-) I haven't tried this on XP Home, though. As far as I know, I do not have ny sort of remapping or crazy application running in the background. All apps but cmd.exe and lyx.exe respond to Alt-F4. Using cua.bind, Alt-F3, F4, Alt-4 all can be mapped to kill lyx but not Alt-F4. crazy. If you have any other ideas to try out, let me know. Thanks! Well, if it works in other apps, then it presumably has not been remapped, so I'm at a loss as to what is going on. Are your machines set up to use a non-English code page? (I'm groping in the dark here.) /Paul I'm having the same issue on XP Pro. Neither Lyx 1.4.1 or cmd.exe are killed with alt-f4, while all other apps are. -John
Re: aspell on XP
Ed Gatzke wrote: Are you sure Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe? I have tried on a couple of machines and checked other groups, Alt-F4 does not kill cmd.exe for most. Well, I just opened a command window on my laptop (XP Pro), ran a command in it, hit Alt-F4 and (a) the window vanished and (b) it's not showing up on the task list. So either I killed it or I banished it to a parallel universe. :-) I haven't tried this on XP Home, though. As far as I know, I do not have ny sort of remapping or crazy application running in the background. All apps but cmd.exe and lyx.exe respond to Alt-F4. Using cua.bind, Alt-F3, F4, Alt-4 all can be mapped to kill lyx but not Alt-F4. crazy. If you have any other ideas to try out, let me know. Thanks! Well, if it works in other apps, then it presumably has not been remapped, so I'm at a loss as to what is going on. Are your machines set up to use a non-English code page? (I'm groping in the dark here.) /Paul
Re: aspell on XP
Ed Gatzke wrote: Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe on my laptop, so I think there may be something going on at the OS level. There are keyboard macro programs for XP that can remap function keys (I don't know if the Alt-F4 combination can be remapped). Could you have one installed? ( /Paul Are you sure Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe? I have tried on a couple of machines and checked other groups, Alt-F4 does not kill cmd.exe for most. As far as I know, I do not have ny sort of remapping or crazy application running in the background. All apps but cmd.exe and lyx.exe respond to Alt-F4. Using cua.bind, Alt-F3, F4, Alt-4 all can be mapped to kill lyx but not Alt-F4. crazy. If you have any other ideas to try out, let me know. Thanks! Ed I think it as just as quick to type "exit " because the keys are closer together. This works if cmd.exe is the program with current focus, just like Alt-F4. But if cmd.exe is not the current focus you would have to cycle through them with Alt-tab to return focus to cmd.exe. Also just like Alt-F4 with its generic close program assignment method. Regards, Stephen
Re: aspell on XP
> > Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe on my laptop, so I think there may be something > going on at the OS level. There are keyboard macro programs for XP that > can remap function keys (I don't know if the Alt-F4 combination can be > remapped). Could you have one installed? ( > > /Paul > > Are you sure Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe? I have tried on a couple of machines and checked other groups, Alt-F4 does not kill cmd.exe for most. As far as I know, I do not have ny sort of remapping or crazy application running in the background. All apps but cmd.exe and lyx.exe respond to Alt-F4. Using cua.bind, Alt-F3, F4, Alt-4 all can be mapped to kill lyx but not Alt-F4. crazy. If you have any other ideas to try out, let me know. Thanks! Ed
Re: aspell on XP
Ed Gatzke wrote: On another note, Alt-F4 does not close the lyx application window. Meta bindings work in other cases, and I can modify stuff in mycua.bindbut M-F4 binding to lyx-quid does nothing, although C-F4 works. All windows apps should responding to alt-f4, so this is annoying to me... Anyway, I use cua.bind and M-F4 kills LyX 1.4.1 for me. Did you modify cua.bind to load any other binding files after the line that binds M-F4 to lyx-quit? If so, could the binding be overwritten in one of the loaded files? I tried looking into this, putting my M-F4 binding at the very end of cua.bind and commenting out the bind_file commands. Nothing appears to work for me so far. And cmd.exe, the crappy xp shell does not respond to Alt-F4 either. The "crappy xp shell" is actually an improvement over command.exe, the crappier Win 9x shell. :-) Alt-F4 kills cmd.exe on my laptop, so I think there may be something going on at the OS level. There are keyboard macro programs for XP that can remap function keys (I don't know if the Alt-F4 combination can be remapped). Could you have one installed? ( /Paul
Re: aspell on XP
>> >> I have installed aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe in a variety of places, including >> C:\Aspell C:\Aspell\Dictionaries and C:\Aspell\lib > > My installation has a C:\Aspell\dict folder that the Aspell installer > created. That is where I park dictionaries. I reinstalled using the new installer and all is fine now. Trying to fix the old install was not working, and the new installer appears tobeperfect. I did not do this first, I as I was worried about screwing something up worse in the uninstall/install process. >> On another note, Alt-F4 does not close the lyx application window. Meta >> bindings work in other cases, and I can modify stuff in mycua.bindbut M-F4 >> binding to lyx-quid does nothing, although C-F4 works. All >> windows apps should responding to alt-f4, so this is annoying to me... > > Anyway, I use cua.bind and M-F4 kills LyX 1.4.1 for me. Did you modify > cua.bind to load any other binding files after the line that binds M-F4 > to lyx-quit? If so, could the binding be overwritten in one of the > loaded files? > I tried looking into this, putting my M-F4 binding at the very end of cua.bind and commenting out the bind_file commands. Nothing appears to work for me so far. And cmd.exe, the crappy xp shell does not respond to Alt-F4 either.
RE: aspell on XP
Thanks! I could not get my old 1.4 install to spellcheck, but uninstalling and installing the latest and greatest versions worked. The new PC installer is a godsend. Thank you so very much anyone that worked on that project! I still have issues that I can't get LyX to quit on Alt-F4 like almost all other windows applications. I have messed around with my cua.bind, but nothing works. I can bind Alt-4 and Ctrl-F4 to close LyX, but Alt-F4 still won't do anything. This seems a small issue, but it for me is a big inconsistency in the way lyx works that limits usability in some cases when I try to do most everything without a mouse (Alt-Tab task switching, Any ideas would be appreciated! Thanks again Uwe. Ed Gatzke -Original Message- From: Uwe Stöhr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 7/3/2006 5:03 PM To: Ed Gatzke Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: aspell on XP Ed Gatzke wrote: > I have not been able to get spell checking to work on the 1.4.1 LyX build on > Windows XP. > > I have installed Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe and told it to install in C:\Aspell LyX 1.4.1 needs aspell version 0.60.x. > I have installed aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe in a variety of places, including > C:\Aspell C:\Aspell\Dictionaries and C:\Aspell\lib Don't install it several times. You can use this LyX installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller that automatically installs and configures aspell to work together with LyX. All you need to do is to install some dictionaries - the installer asks you for this and points you to a download repository. > I have reconfigured LyX, and spellcheck is not grayed out. You can ignore this as this setting is by default disabled in LyX for wondows. regards Uwe
Re: aspell on XP
Ed Gatzke wrote: I have not been able to get spell checking to work on the 1.4.1 LyX build on Windows XP. I have installed Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe and told it to install in C:\Aspell LyX 1.4.1 needs aspell version 0.60.x. I have installed aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe in a variety of places, including C:\Aspell C:\Aspell\Dictionaries and C:\Aspell\lib Don't install it several times. You can use this LyX installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller that automatically installs and configures aspell to work together with LyX. All you need to do is to install some dictionaries - the installer asks you for this and points you to a download repository. I have reconfigured LyX, and spellcheck is not grayed out. You can ignore this as this setting is by default disabled in LyX for wondows. regards Uwe
Re: Problem with aspell and accent's
> > Lyx and aspell are not workin ok together in words > with accents ( > > portuguese in my case ). > > Lyx 1.4.1 work Ok with ispell and words with accents. In my computer aspell no work with words and accents. Can you swicht aspell for ispell? Ispell work well with an option that appears in Preferences, something like or . I don´t remember how this option appears in english. Marcelo _ Horóscopos, Salud y belleza, Chistes, Consejos de amor: el contenido más divertido para tu celular está en Yahoo! Móvil. Obtenelo en http://movil.yahoo.com.ar
Re: aspell on XP
Ed Gatzke wrote: I have not been able to get spell checking to work on the 1.4.1 LyX build on Windows XP. I have installed Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe and told it to install in C:\Aspell I have installed aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe in a variety of places, including C:\Aspell C:\Aspell\Dictionaries and C:\Aspell\lib My installation has a C:\Aspell\dict folder that the Aspell installer created. That is where I park dictionaries. I have reconfigured LyX, and spellcheck is not grayed out. I have tried to muck around with the preferences file to point directly to the aspell.exe file. This should not be necessary. I keep getting the error dialog, "The spellchecker could not be started. No word lists can be found for the language "en_US"." Any help would be appreciated Along with the dictionaries, did you install the Aspell 6 data files (http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/Aspell6/aspelldata-0.60.4-root.exe)? LyX 1.4.1 needs Aspell version 6, but my impression is that version 6 is not yet a stable release, so the preferred route seems to be to install 5 and then add the "data files", which are the necessary modifications to 5 to let LyX 1.4.1 work with it. On another note, Alt-F4 does not close the lyx application window. Meta bindings work in other cases, and I can modify stuff in my cua.bind but M-F4 binding to lyx-quid does nothing, although C-F4 works. All windows apps should responding to alt-f4, so this is annoying to me... Interestingly, Microsoft itself has been to know to ship Windows applications (or at least applets) that do not respond to Alt-F4. I know this because I lost the use of my mouse one time during a partial system crash and could not kill the window I was in using the keyboard. (I don't recall which applet it was, but it did not have a File->Exit menu option, either.) Anyway, I use cua.bind and M-F4 kills LyX 1.4.1 for me. Did you modify cua.bind to load any other binding files after the line that binds M-F4 to lyx-quit? If so, could the binding be overwritten in one of the loaded files? /Paul
aspell on XP
I have not been able to get spell checking to work on the 1.4.1 LyX build on Windows XP. I have installed Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe and told it to install in C:\Aspell I have installed aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe in a variety of places, including C:\Aspell C:\Aspell\Dictionaries and C:\Aspell\lib I have reconfigured LyX, and spellcheck is not grayed out. I have tried to muck around with the preferences file to point directly to the aspell.exe file. I keep getting the error dialog, "The spellchecker could not be started. No word lists can be found for the language "en_US"." Any help would be appreciated On another note, Alt-F4 does not close the lyx application window. Meta bindings work in other cases, and I can modify stuff in my cua.bind but M-F4 binding to lyx-quid does nothing, although C-F4 works. All windows apps should responding to alt-f4, so this is annoying to me... Thanks! Ed Gatzke
Re: Problem with aspell and accent's
Gustavo Felisberto wrote: As can be seen here: http://omploader.org/file/lyx-aspell-pt.png Lyx and aspell are not workin ok together in words with accents ( portuguese in my case ). If i start lyx with LC_ALL=C lyx all works ok, but from what i found in the wiki this should no longer happen. This is indeed a language problem. I get the same with norwegian, because my system is set up to use LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8 and lyx does not yet support UTF-8. My solution is to use LANG=nb_NO or LANG=nb_NO.ISO8859-1 when running lyx. That way, the menus etc. in lyx is still in norwegian, and there is no problem with non-ascii stuff in the spellchecker either. I am sure you can do a very similar trick using portuguese language codes instead of norwegian. If you don't want to type the portuguese equivalent of LANG=nb_NO ; lyx everytime you need to run lyx, then modify your menu system to run the above command, or make a wrapper script. A wrapper script can be made like this: Log in as root, then give these commands: cd /usr/local/bin (or /usr/bin if that is where your lyx lives) mv lyx lyx.real (the lyx application gets a new name) echo 'LANG=nb_NO;lyx.real $*' > lyx chmod oug+x lyx Now "lyx" is a script that sets the language code, and then runs lyx.real which is the new name for the lyx application. Helge Hafting
Problem with aspell and accent's
As can be seen here: http://omploader.org/file/lyx-aspell-pt.png Lyx and aspell are not workin ok together in words with accents ( portuguese in my case ). If i start lyx with LC_ALL=C lyx all works ok, but from what i found in the wiki this should no longer happen. My sistem is a gentoo gnu/linux system and i'm using lyx 1.4.1 If more info is needed please ask as i really need this working. -- Gustavo Felisberto (HumpBack) Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~humpback Blog: http://blog.felisberto.net/ It's most certainly GNU/Linux, not Linux. Read more at http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html . - signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Windows XP: Aspell for Opera and Lyx conflict
You are right. I was able to install both to the same folder c:\aspell and it Opera and Lyx found the versions they were needing. I didn't know about the bug in lyx windows that causes Aspell to ignore the first misspelled word in a document. I was testing it with only one misspelled word in my sentence. Thanks for your help David On 6/21/06, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Finlayson wrote: > Maybe some of you use Opera browser as well as Lyx on Windows XP? > > I can't seem to get Opera to find the custom Aspell 0.6 built for Lyx, > and I can't get Lyx to work with Aspell 0.5 which Opera can use > (installed in C:\Aspell in both cases). Finally, it doesn't seem like > you can have both Aspell versions installed because Opera uses > c:\Aspell no matter where an alternate version is placed. Grrr. > > Is it really true that I can only have spell checking in my email > client or my word processor but not both at the same time? > Joost has fixed it so Aspell can be installed where you want it. Probably available in the next LyX release. You can have two versions of Aspell installed for LyX, so I don't see why it wouldn't work for LyX and Opera. The traditional 0.5 should work with Opera or LyX1.3.7 -- and 0.6 should work with LyX1.4.1 -- they share the same parent folder, C:\Aspell but are installed in different folders after that with different dictionaries. They don't conflict for the two LyX versions. I don't have Opera, but a full path specified to the 0.53 Aspell should work. Regards, Stephen -- David Finlayson
Re: Windows XP: Aspell for Opera and Lyx conflict
David Finlayson wrote: Maybe some of you use Opera browser as well as Lyx on Windows XP? I can't seem to get Opera to find the custom Aspell 0.6 built for Lyx, and I can't get Lyx to work with Aspell 0.5 which Opera can use (installed in C:\Aspell in both cases). Finally, it doesn't seem like you can have both Aspell versions installed because Opera uses c:\Aspell no matter where an alternate version is placed. Grrr. Is it really true that I can only have spell checking in my email client or my word processor but not both at the same time? Joost has fixed it so Aspell can be installed where you want it. Probably available in the next LyX release. You can have two versions of Aspell installed for LyX, so I don't see why it wouldn't work for LyX and Opera. The traditional 0.5 should work with Opera or LyX1.3.7 -- and 0.6 should work with LyX1.4.1 -- they share the same parent folder, C:\Aspell but are installed in different folders after that with different dictionaries. They don't conflict for the two LyX versions. I don't have Opera, but a full path specified to the 0.53 Aspell should work. Regards, Stephen
Windows XP: Aspell for Opera and Lyx conflict
Maybe some of you use Opera browser as well as Lyx on Windows XP? I can't seem to get Opera to find the custom Aspell 0.6 built for Lyx, and I can't get Lyx to work with Aspell 0.5 which Opera can use (installed in C:\Aspell in both cases). Finally, it doesn't seem like you can have both Aspell versions installed because Opera uses c:\Aspell no matter where an alternate version is placed. Grrr. Is it really true that I can only have spell checking in my email client or my word processor but not both at the same time? I know there are issues with Aspell on Windows (I searched the mailing list) but this is ridiculous. Why is Windows Lyx using a custom Aspell version in the first place and even if this was a good idea, why is the custom Aspell clobbering other programs which want the stable version of Aspell? -- David Finlayson
Re: Help installing aspell on Mac OS X
Thank you, Bennett and Tomoharu! I finally got it to work, as follows: * I checked that aspell is installed correctly using Bennett's suggestion of searching for files hidden by the Mac GUI. Aspell was there all right, as were the dictionary files. There are some *.alias files, these are important, see below. * I noticed that you have to set the language correctly in Lyx's Document --> Settings. I also noticed that you have to place the cursor in front of the section you wish to be spellchecked. * I then used the Lyx --> Preferences --> Language Settings --> Spellchecker to tell Lyx what spellchecker executable to use (aspell, obviously). However, this alone still did not work even if the language was correctly set in both the document settings and the preferences. But I discovered that you can use any "alternative language" simply by adding the appropriate alias name. For example, I entered "swiss" since I have a "swiss.alias" in my aspell folder, and the spellchecking followed along the Swiss rules. I entered "deutsch" or "british" and got the according results. So everything works fine now. So there's no need for fink now, but I may give a try next time :-). Cheers, Christian Bennett Helm wrote: On Jun 10, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Christian Liesen wrote: Hello, I'm experiencing a problem with installing aspell on Mac OS X 10.4.6. I followed these instructions by the book: http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling What happens is that I end up with two aspell folders on my desktop (one with aspell itself labeled "aspell-0.60.4", another one with the desired dictionary labeled "aspell6-en-6.0-0"). These folders contain files that obviously were generated when running the configure-, make- and sudo make installation-processes, since their date is today. There are no other aspell folders anywhere on my HDD, except for these two. I reconfigured Lyx 1.4.1, but it does not recognize aspell at all. Instead it says that "Error: The file "/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/ngerman" can not be opened for reading. There is no file named "ngerman" anywhere on my computer. What's going on here? Did I miss something? Most likely, the files have been installed; it's just that they are hidden by the Mac GUI. You can check to see if they're really there by going to the Finder and selecting Go > Go to Folder ..., and then typing in /usr/local/lib to the dialog that pops up. If you don't find an aspell directory there, something went wrong with the installation. Also, double check to make sure that aspell is selected from within LyX's preferences (LyX > Preferences > Spellchecker > Spellchecker executable). Note that in what you've described, you've installed aspell6-en-6.0-0 -- an English dictionary. LyX is apparently looking for a German dictionary, which it reports it cannot find. If you're spellchecking German text (i.e., text identified as German within LyX), you'll need to install the appropriate dictionary. Bennett
Re: Help installing aspell on Mac OS X
On Jun 10, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Christian Liesen wrote: Hello, I'm experiencing a problem with installing aspell on Mac OS X 10.4.6. I followed these instructions by the book: http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/ MacSpelling What happens is that I end up with two aspell folders on my desktop (one with aspell itself labeled "aspell-0.60.4", another one with the desired dictionary labeled "aspell6-en-6.0-0"). These folders contain files that obviously were generated when running the configure-, make- and sudo make installation-processes, since their date is today. There are no other aspell folders anywhere on my HDD, except for these two. I reconfigured Lyx 1.4.1, but it does not recognize aspell at all. Instead it says that "Error: The file "/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/ ngerman" can not be opened for reading. There is no file named "ngerman" anywhere on my computer. What's going on here? Did I miss something? Most likely, the files have been installed; it's just that they are hidden by the Mac GUI. You can check to see if they're really there by going to the Finder and selecting Go > Go to Folder ..., and then typing in /usr/local/lib to the dialog that pops up. If you don't find an aspell directory there, something went wrong with the installation. Also, double check to make sure that aspell is selected from within LyX's preferences (LyX > Preferences > Spellchecker > Spellchecker executable). Note that in what you've described, you've installed aspell6-en-6.0-0 -- an English dictionary. LyX is apparently looking for a German dictionary, which it reports it cannot find. If you're spellchecking German text (i.e., text identified as German within LyX), you'll need to install the appropriate dictionary. Bennett
Re: Help installing aspell on Mac OS X
My suggestion for an easier way to install aspell (and other unix programs) in OSX is to use fink. Go to: fink.sourceforge.net It has a very simple command line interface. If you prefer something a little more GUI-like, you can get finkcommander as well: finkcommander.sorceforge.net Basically, fink is a package management environment. It will set the appropriate paths in OSX, compile and install programs and dependencies. I have installed aspell using fink, and it works perfectly. (One additional benefit is that the stable distribution of fink also comes with pre-compiled versions of most programs, so you can install without compiling.) Hope this works. Tomoharu On Jun 10, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Christian Liesen wrote: Hello, I'm experiencing a problem with installing aspell on Mac OS X 10.4.6. I followed these instructions by the book: http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/ MacSpelling What happens is that I end up with two aspell folders on my desktop (one with aspell itself labeled "aspell-0.60.4", another one with the desired dictionary labeled "aspell6-en-6.0-0"). These folders contain files that obviously were generated when running the configure-, make- and sudo make installation-processes, since their date is today. There are no other aspell folders anywhere on my HDD, except for these two. I reconfigured Lyx 1.4.1, but it does not recognize aspell at all. Instead it says that "Error: The file "/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/ ngerman" can not be opened for reading. There is no file named "ngerman" anywhere on my computer. What's going on here? Did I miss something? Thanks ever so much for your help, Christian
Help installing aspell on Mac OS X
Hello, I'm experiencing a problem with installing aspell on Mac OS X 10.4.6. I followed these instructions by the book: http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling What happens is that I end up with two aspell folders on my desktop (one with aspell itself labeled "aspell-0.60.4", another one with the desired dictionary labeled "aspell6-en-6.0-0"). These folders contain files that obviously were generated when running the configure-, make- and sudo make installation-processes, since their date is today. There are no other aspell folders anywhere on my HDD, except for these two. I reconfigured Lyx 1.4.1, but it does not recognize aspell at all. Instead it says that "Error: The file "/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/ngerman" can not be opened for reading. There is no file named "ngerman" anywhere on my computer. What's going on here? Did I miss something? Thanks ever so much for your help, Christian -- Dr. des. CHRISTIAN LIESEN Universität Zürich Institut für Sonderpädagogik Hirschengraben 48 CH-8001 Zürich Tel. +41 44 634 31 30 Fax +41 44 634 49 41 eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing aspell
On Jun 8, 2006, at 2:35 PM, Isaac Pante wrote: Hello Everybody! I tried to install aspell and the french dictionnary for lyx/Mac 1.4.1 as written on this page (http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling) and had two errors: 1- when I typed "make", the terminal returned the following answer: -bash: make: command not found Likely this means you don't have the developer's tools installed. (Look again at the MacSpelling wiki page; it has a link.) Naturally I wasn't able to go on with the install but I tried anyway and arrived to my second problem 2- when I typed "sudo make install", the terminal returned the following answer: "isaacpante is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported" What's the solution? You must (normally) be on an administrative account to use sudo. Bennett
Problems installing aspell
Hello Everybody! I tried to install aspell and the french dictionnary for lyx/Mac 1.4.1 as written on this page (http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling) and had two errors: 1- when I typed "make", the terminal returned the following answer: -bash: make: command not found Naturally I wasn't able to go on with the install but I tried anyway and arrived to my second problem 2- when I typed "sudo make install", the terminal returned the following answer: "isaacpante is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported" What's the solution? Thanks for your answers! Isaac Pante
Re: Aspell Troubles with the WinInstaller, 3 May 2006
Peter Pakulski wrote:
Hi,
I've just installed Lyx for the first time on this machine, using the
installer from:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller
for Lyx 1.4.1
Both before and after installing the Aspell language pack (for English),
Spell-checking is greyed-out in Tools->Preferences->Spellchecker.
This is normal. That control is used to select a spell-checker, but the
Windows version is hard-coded to use Aspell, and the option to select
anything else is greyed-out.
I've
tried a few of workarounds:
- Adding paths to the Path Prefix (C:\Aspell, C:\Aspell\lib,
C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60)
This should be unnecessary, since Aspell *must* be installed in C:\Aspell.
- Changing lyxrc.defaults manually ('\spell_command aspell' and
'\spell_command "aspell"')
Also unnecessary, as the Windows version knows that it's Aspell (in
C:\Aspell) or nothing.
- Uninstalling Aspell and reinstalling from a seperate installer
(AspellData-0.60.4.exe)
and yes, I've been choosing "reconfigure" after every change and
restarted Lyx.
In any configuration, spell checking works on long documents with
headings etc..., but will not work for short documents (a few sentences
only), sometimes (I haven't figured out what the conditions are) it will
highlight a word but not open the spellchecking window. It always skips
the first misspelled word in the document.
This is a known bug. If there is only one misspelled word, it will
highlight that word but not open the dialog to correct it (giving the
word count instead). If there are two or more misspelled words, it will
highlight the second and open the correction dialog.
Even though the default
language is set to British, it complains about "colour", and tries to
put 'z's in words like "Realise" (Is this a known Aspell issue?). Again
reiterating - it seems to be completely unavailable from the preferences
menu.
Did you install a British (v. American) dictionary?
I'm a little unsure of the fact that C:/Aspell contains only the
uninstaller executable and the "lib" directory - shouldn't some other
files belong in there?
There's a readme file, and your personal dictionary (words you've added)
goes there. Pretty much everything else lives in subdirectories.
The Lib directory contains nothing but the
"aspell-0.60" directory. Only in C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60 do all the
files and dictionary files exist. This is as per all the default
options. I've tried copying and moving the files up and down the
hierarchy, but not necessarily for every combination of the things I've
tried above.
This is the correct structure.
It's driving me absolutely nuts. Anyone have a guess at what might be
wrong?
Other than the known bug of skipping the first misspelled word, I
suspect it's working properly, but possibly with the wrong dictionary.
/Paul
Aspell Troubles with the WinInstaller, 3 May 2006
Hi,
I've just installed Lyx for the first time on this machine, using the
installer from:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller
for Lyx 1.4.1
Both before and after installing the Aspell language pack (for English),
Spell-checking is greyed-out in Tools->Preferences->Spellchecker. I've
tried a few of workarounds:
- Adding paths to the Path Prefix (C:\Aspell, C:\Aspell\lib,
C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60)
- Changing lyxrc.defaults manually ('\spell_command aspell' and
'\spell_command "aspell"')
- Uninstalling Aspell and reinstalling from a seperate installer
(AspellData-0.60.4.exe)
and yes, I've been choosing "reconfigure" after every change and
restarted Lyx.
In any configuration, spell checking works on long documents with
headings etc..., but will not work for short documents (a few sentences
only), sometimes (I haven't figured out what the conditions are) it will
highlight a word but not open the spellchecking window. It always skips
the first misspelled word in the document. Even though the default
language is set to British, it complains about "colour", and tries to
put 'z's in words like "Realise" (Is this a known Aspell issue?). Again
reiterating - it seems to be completely unavailable from the preferences
menu.
I'm a little unsure of the fact that C:/Aspell contains only the
uninstaller executable and the "lib" directory - shouldn't some other
files belong in there? The Lib directory contains nothing but the
"aspell-0.60" directory. Only in C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60 do all the
files and dictionary files exist. This is as per all the default
options. I've tried copying and moving the files up and down the
hierarchy, but not necessarily for every combination of the things I've
tried above.
It's driving me absolutely nuts. Anyone have a guess at what might be
wrong?
Thanks,
Peter.
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Re: Aspell 6 for Lyx 1.3.7?
Peter Bowyer wrote: At 00:15 14/04/2006, Stephen Harris wrote: Make a short list of misspelled words, misspelled.txt and put it in C:\Aspell. From the dos-like command prompt type at C:\Aspell> aspell -c misspelled.txt OK I can see a problem already. Having now installed aspell 0.5 (using ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/w32/Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe) as Paul Rubin suggested I have binaries, but they are in the C:\aspell\bin directory. So... using C:\Aspell>bin\aspell -c misspelled.txt Error: No word lists can be found for the language "en_US". Then I installed the 0.5 en dictionary (having already installed the 0.6 one before putting the binary in place) and it worked fine. Even from within LyX! So it looks like the 0.5/0.6 mix was the problem. Actually, the mix should be ok. There are two things that may be confounded here. One is that the first two packages you downloaded from the wiki don't actually install Aspell -- they install selected parts necessary to augment Aspell 0.5 to a sort-of-0.6 status. (LyX 1.4.x needs Aspell 0.6.) The other is that the most recent version of LyX 1.3.7 uses Aspell 0.6, but earlier versions use Aspell 0.5. Anyway, if it works, it works. :-) /Paul
Re: Aspell 6 for Lyx 1.3.7?
At 00:15 14/04/2006, Stephen Harris wrote: Make a short list of misspelled words, misspelled.txt and put it in C:\Aspell. From the dos-like command prompt type at C:\Aspell> aspell -c misspelled.txt OK I can see a problem already. Having now installed aspell 0.5 (using ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/w32/Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe) as Paul Rubin suggested I have binaries, but they are in the C:\aspell\bin directory. So... using C:\Aspell>bin\aspell -c misspelled.txt Error: No word lists can be found for the language "en_US". Then I installed the 0.5 en dictionary (having already installed the 0.6 one before putting the binary in place) and it worked fine. Even from within LyX! So it looks like the 0.5/0.6 mix was the problem. Regards, Peter
Re: Aspell 6 for Lyx 1.3.7?
Peter Bowyer wrote: At 19:41 13/04/2006, Stephen Harris wrote: Did the AspellData and dictionary (126 files) get installed to Yes, all that side is fine. I just can't find Aspell itself. Also my Spellchecker preferences are stuck on ispell - which perhaps is the problem? Peter Make a short list of misspelled words, misspelled.txt and put it in C:\Aspell. From the dos-like command prompt type at C:\Aspell> aspell -c misspelled.txt This should activate Aspell. The purpose of this is to find out if aspell is not working or if the LyX connection is not working. If Aspell doesn't work at the command prompt as outlined above, then it is not installed correctly (and LyX is not at fault). If Aspell does work at the command line, then try this; Run in LyX1.3.7->Edit->Reconfigure This "should" not have to be done. But it takes little time and is easy, so I think it should be tried. You might have reinstalled something after the LyX initial installation. Regards, Stephen
Re: Aspell 6 for Lyx 1.3.7?
Peter Bowyer wrote: At 19:41 13/04/2006, Stephen Harris wrote: Did the AspellData and dictionary (126 files) get installed to Yes, all that side is fine. I just can't find Aspell itself. Also my Spellchecker preferences are stuck on ispell - which perhaps is the problem? Peter No. The Windows version is hard-coded to use Aspell. In the preferences menu, the option to specify a spell-checker is disabled (and shows ispell for some odd reason), but what it says is irrelevant -- Aspell will be used. The path (C:\Aspell) is also hard-coded. I'm pretty sure the AspellData archive contains just the files necessary to update an existing installation of Aspell so that the newest release of 1.3.7, and the releases of 1.4.x, can use it. Did you have Aspell installed before you installed the two archives you downloaded from the wiki upload area? If not, grab the version 0.50 installer from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/w32 and install that. (They apparently don't have a Windows installer for 0.60 yet.) /Paul
Re: Aspell 6 for Lyx 1.3.7?
At 19:41 13/04/2006, Stephen Harris wrote: Did the AspellData and dictionary (126 files) get installed to Yes, all that side is fine. I just can't find Aspell itself. Also my Spellchecker preferences are stuck on ispell - which perhaps is the problem? Peter
Re: Aspell 6 for Lyx 1.3.7?
Peter Bowyer wrote: At 17:22 13/04/2006, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: Did you install the dictionaries ? That would be surprising as Uwe's installer offers the link after aspell install, but it is an explanation of the symptoms. I installed: http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/Aspell6/AspellData-0.60.4.exe http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/Aspell6/aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe I take it there's some other file? Peter Did the AspellData and dictionary (126 files) get installed to C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60 ? Maybe your installation path is different?
Re: Aspell 6 for Lyx 1.3.7?
At 18:40 13/04/2006, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: I checked on the Win machine, I did not install anything else than aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe and the french dictionary. Should work now for na English document ? No. I've looked at the Spellchecker item in the Preferences window. Spell checker program is set to ispell, and is greyed out so I cannot change it. All the other fields are blank. Aspell is installed at c:\aspell - do I need to add it to my PATH prefix? Peter
Re: Aspell 6 for Lyx 1.3.7?
>>Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:13:19 +0100 >>To: Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>From: Peter Bowyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Aspell 6 for Lyx 1.3.7? >>X-Virus-Scanner: CLEAN - This message does not contain a known virus. >> >>At 17:22 13/04/2006, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: >>>Did you install the dictionaries ? >>>That would be surprising as Uwe's installer offers the link after >>>aspell install, >>>but it is an explanation of the symptoms. >> >>I installed: >>http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/Aspell6/AspellData-0.60.4.exe >>http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/Aspell6/aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe >> >>I take it there's some other file? I checked on the Win machine, I did not install anything else than aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe and the french dictionary. Should work now for na English document ? -- Jean-Pierre
Re: Aspell 6 for Lyx 1.3.7?
At 17:22 13/04/2006, Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: Did you install the dictionaries ? That would be surprising as Uwe's installer offers the link after aspell install, but it is an explanation of the symptoms. I installed: http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/Aspell6/AspellData-0.60.4.exe http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/Aspell6/aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe I take it there's some other file? Peter
Re: Aspell 6 for Lyx 1.3.7?
>>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>From: Olivier Ripoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Aspell 6 for Lyx 1.3.7? >>Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:14:34 +0200 >> >>Peter Bowyer wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've installed Aspell6 for Windows from >>> http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6 but cannot get anything to happen >>> when I click the spellchecker link on the "Edit" menu, dying with the >>> message: >>> "No word lists can be found for the language "en"." >>> >>> I've followed the instructions on the wiki page, but I'm wondering if >>> something is missed out as I don't have any executables in C:\Aspell? >>> Like Aspell itself ;) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Peter >>> >>> >>Well, exactly same symptoms for me, no aspell executable after install ;) Did you install the dictionaries ? That would be surprising as Uwe's installer offers the link after aspell install, but it is an explanation of the symptoms. No problem here on Win2000 after installing English and French dictionaries. -- Jean-Pierre
Re: Aspell 6 for Lyx 1.3.7?
Peter Bowyer wrote: Hi, I've installed Aspell6 for Windows from http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6 but cannot get anything to happen when I click the spellchecker link on the "Edit" menu, dying with the message: "No word lists can be found for the language "en"." I've followed the instructions on the wiki page, but I'm wondering if something is missed out as I don't have any executables in C:\Aspell? Like Aspell itself ;) Cheers, Peter Well, exactly same symptoms for me, no aspell executable after install ;) Best regards, Olivier
Aspell 6 for Lyx 1.3.7?
Hi, I've installed Aspell6 for Windows from http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6 but cannot get anything to happen when I click the spellchecker link on the "Edit" menu, dying with the message: "No word lists can be found for the language "en"." I've followed the instructions on the wiki page, but I'm wondering if something is missed out as I don't have any executables in C:\Aspell? Like Aspell itself ;) Cheers, Peter
Aspell New Dictionary test and Windows LyX
The reason I am sending this to the User list is that the developer (Marc) server seems to be down again and there is some news of relevance to WinLyx users. The new Aspell dictionaries and data installer which works great if you follow the default is just about ready. Angus Leeming wrote: --- Ok, Joost, Stephen. Please check out http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6 where you'll find the new version of all files. At least, I assume you will in about 1 hour. Files are currently uploading. If you can confirm that all is well with these, then I'll move on to LyX itself. Regards, Angus --- SH: Original message to developer list: Everything seems to work. I started with a clean C:\aspell and installed the new Aspell data files first, as customary. The *.cmap/cset etc. were installed to C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60 as I think they are supposed to be. But the default on the installer reads C:\Aspell. Should this default read C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60 like the default for the dictionary install? It doesn't work to change the default data install to C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60 because an extra \lib gets inserted, so a user needs to keep the default of C:\Aspell. the bottom line is use the default, whatever it is, Stephen
Re: aspell problems
- Original Message - From: "Matteo Lualdi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 6:55 AM Subject: aspell problems Hello, I have a problem with aspell spell checker.I have lyx 1.3.7 for Windows and I followed the instuction to get everything working, but Lyx is not recognising any soell checker istalled!I tryed to reconfigure lyx several times whitout any results! Can you please help me! Thank you. M Did you follow the instruction that Aspell must be installed in C:\Aspell? Also the dictionary.
aspell problems
Hello, I have a problem with aspell spell checker.I have lyx 1.3.7 for Windows and I followed the instuction to get everything working, but Lyx is not recognising any soell checker istalled!I tryed to reconfigure lyx several times whitout any results! Can you please help me! Thank you. M ___ Yahoo! Messenger with Voice: chiama da PC a telefono a tariffe esclusive http://it.messenger.yahoo.com
Re: aspell problem
- Original Message - From: "Harold Mouras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:17 AM Subject: aspell problem Hello all, I am using Lyx 1.3.7 for windows but don't have any access to aspell for the spellchecking of my documents. Should I put something specific in the preferences of lyx ? I tried to reinstall aspell with the windows installer independently but it didn"t work, even in c:\aspell Could you help me to fix that ? Thank you very much in advance, Sincerely, Harold SH: Be systematic with your troubleshooting. Make a small file of misspelled words. Test that Aspell works all by itself. From the command line in your Aspell directory containing mispelled.txt type: aspell -c misspelled.txt If you have the Aspell program and your language dictionary installed, this should start checking that file for spelling errors. LyX can't use Aspell unless Aspell works first, all by itself. If you installed Aspell after you have installed LyX, then LyX doesn't know about Aspell. LyX->Edit->Reconfigure will create an association and work if Aspell is working. Regards, Stephen
aspell problem
Hello all, I am using Lyx 1.3.7 for windows but dont have any access to aspell for the spellchecking of my documents. Should I put something specific in the preferences of lyx ? I tried to reinstall aspell with the windows installer independently but it didnt work, even in c:\aspell Could you help me to fix that ? Thank you very much in advance, Sincerely, Harold Harold Mouras Assistant Post-Doctorant -- Equipe Développement Social et Affectif Faculté de Psychologie - 40 boulevard du Pont d'Arve CH-1211 Genève Téléphone: +41 22 37 99 054 Télécopie: +41 22 37 99 020 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.unige.ch/fapse/PSY/persons/vief/> www.unige.ch/fapse/PSY/persons/vief/ ---
Re: Rechtschreibprüfung aspell-ispell
Matthias Schmidt schrieb: Im Fenster Bearbeiten/Einstellungen/Spracheinstellungen/Rechtschreibprüfung ist als Programm zur Rechtschreibprüfung oben "ispell" angegeben. Das Feld ist grau, also inaktiv. Dieses Feld kannst du ignorieren. Frage: wie aktiviere ich denn nun Aspell? Cursor an den Anfang des Dokuments setzen unf F7 drücken (Menü Bearbeiten -> Rechtschreibprüfung). Das setzt aber vorraus, dass du aspell-Wörterbücher installiert hast (http://aspell.net/win32/). Gruß Uwe
Rechtschreibprüfung aspell-ispell
Hallo zusammen, ich schreibe einfach mal deutsch, weil ich nicht so fit in Englisch bin. System: LyX 1.3.7 auf Win XP SP2, LyX unter c:/programme, Aspell direkt unter c: Ich arbeite mich gerade neu in LyX ein. Habe LyX und damit auch Aspell mit dem Windows-Installer installiert. Im Fenster Bearbeiten/Einstellungen/Spracheinstellungen/Rechtschreibprüfung ist als Programm zur Rechtschreibprüfung oben "ispell" angegeben. Das Feld ist grau, also inaktiv. Frage: wie aktiviere ich denn nun Aspell? -- Viele Grüße aus Hannover Matthias Schmidt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Virus checked by G DATA AntiVirusKit ___ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de
RE: Lyx + pdf + aspell problem on windows
My error! I found out I had arcobat running in the background. The error is gone now that I have killed the process. Aspell now does something after the nth reconfigure (on the win2000 box I mean. I still have to try reconfiguring the one on win XP). Thanks for the help! Primrose
RE: Lyx + pdf + aspell problem on windows
>When you say this what do you mean? If you produce a test doc with clearly misspelled words and put the cursor at the >start of the doc and select spell check from teh menu what happens? Absolutely nothing... No feedback whatsoever... >Do you hjave a dictrionary installed? Yes I have the dictionaries I need installed (3 of them) >ON the other hand if you are trying to change ispell to aspell in the preferences then this wont work. It always says I spell. Ok but that was not really my main goal. >Is the reader open before the call to view pdf? Try closing acrobat andf then selecting preview in lyx. No the reader was not started. I have tried this but to no avail, Thank you! Primrose
Re: Lyx + pdf + aspell problem on windows
Hi, I just installed the 1.3.7 on two windows machines (XP and 2000) which had aspell preinstalled in c:/aspell. I cannot get lyx to use aspell. What should I do. When you say this what do you mean? If you produce a test doc with clearly misspelled words and put the cursor at the start of the doc and select spell check from teh menu what happens? Do you hjave a dictrionary installed? ON the other hand if you are trying to change ispell to aspell in the preferences then this wont work. It always says I spell. I changed the preview to call : acrord32.exe because there was nothing there. Now it calls acrobat reader but the reader always says "file not found" Any ideas? (sorry if these questions have already been asked. I couldn't find out how to search the mailing lists...) Is the reader open before the call to view pdf? Try closing acrobat andf then selecting preview in lyx. Primrose
Lyx + pdf + aspell problem on windows
Hi, I just installed the 1.3.7 on two windows machines (XP and 2000) which had aspell preinstalled in c:/aspell. I cannot get lyx to use aspell. What should I do. I changed the preview to call : acrord32.exe because there was nothing there. Now it calls acrobat reader but the reader always says "file not found" Any ideas? (sorry if these questions have already been asked. I couldn't find out how to search the mailing lists...) Primrose
Re: aspell
> The preferences box will always say ispell by the way. So it may be that > it is working you are just trying to change something that doesnt need to > be changed You're right! I ran the spell checker again and it worked. But I don't know why it didn't work yesterday. (Oh no, I think it was the curser position. Probably it was at the end) Don't say anything... ;-) Thank you very much that you spent your time for my problem. regards Christopher -- Lust, ein paar Euro nebenbei zu verdienen? Ohne Kosten, ohne Risiko! Satte Provisionen für GMX Partner: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/partner
Re: aspell
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your fast responses. I did what you said. First, I deinstalled all. After this I tried again. I istalled Lyx with the lyx-installer and aspell was installed automatically, too. afterwards I installed a german dictonary. but it didn't work. So I deinstalled all again. now I installed aspell first and after this lyx, who found aspell. but it also didn't work. so i tried to run aspell in a console with success. so, i think, the problem isn't the spellchecker. do you have some other ideas or you see something I made wrong? regards Christopher -- 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse f?r Mail, Message, More +++ What happens when you type a misspelled word in lyx and then run the spell checker?? Does it give any errors? The preferences box will always say ispell by the way. So it may be that it is working you are just trying to change something that doesnt need to be changed
Re: aspell
Thank you for your fast responses. I did what you said. First, I deinstalled all. After this I tried again. I istalled Lyx with the lyx-installer and aspell was installed automatically, too. afterwards I installed a german dictonary. but it didn't work. So I deinstalled all again. now I installed aspell first and after this lyx, who found aspell. but it also didn't work. so i tried to run aspell in a console with success. so, i think, the problem isn't the spellchecker. do you have some other ideas or you see something I made wrong? regards Christopher -- 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++
Re: aspell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: time for me writing to a mailing list. I've a problem to run aspell in lyx under windows. I can't choose aspell in the settings. There is only the default setting ispell. You can ignore the setting of the spellchecker. To get aspell working install it in C:\Aspell and also install an aspell dictionary. I installed aspell to c:\aspell and made two folders "share" ,within "aspell" which consists "data" and the other one "lib", within "aspell" which ... If you use this LyX installer for Windows: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller Aspell is configured automatically. I recommend in your case to deinstall Aspell first (also delete the folder C:\Aspell) before you use the installer. I used the following homepage: http://homepages.fh-giessen.de/~hg8416/studium/Allgemeines/Diplomarbeiten/Howto_Lyx_unter_Windows.pdf I'll contact the author to update the informations. regards Uwe
Re: aspell
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 3:43 PM Subject: aspell hey guys! used software: windows xp/sp2, lyx 1.3.7-pre4, aspell0.50.3 I used the following homepage: http://homepages.fh-giessen.de/~hg8416/studium/Allgemeines/Diplomarbeiten/Howto_Lyx_unter_Windows.pdf (only in german) So I hope I gave enough information and hope you can help me. (Please excuse my bad english :-) ) Christopher Those install instructions are 21 months out of date. You just need an Aspell*.exe file and a dictionary in your language, German, with maybe also English . Install the Aspell*.exe and dictionary to C:\Aspell LyX will recognize C:\Aspell if Aspell is installed before LyX. If you install Aspell after the LyX installation (or reinstall it) then you might have to run LyX's Reconfigure (under Edit). Your instruction description sounds like directions for a Cygwin install which has a Linux like structure. The new LyX137 works natively on Windows, no X-server needed. No need to copy anything to C:\programme\Lyx. You can also test Aspell from the Dos command prompt to see if it is working so that later under LyX if Aspell doesn't work you know the problem is with LyX, narrowing the error cause. I forgot to mention using Reconfigure to be safe in my 1st email, Stephen
aspell
hey guys!
first of all I hope this is the right list. I'm not sure. It is the first
time for me writing to a mailing list. I've a problem to run aspell in lyx
under windows. I can't choose aspell in the settings. There is only the
default setting ispell. but it doesn't work because of the missing word
lists. I searched in google but I didn't get a satisfied solution. I
installed aspell to c:\aspell and made two folders "share" ,within "aspell"
which consists "data" and the other one "lib", within "aspell" which
consists " "dict". ("data" and "dict" are out of the aspell-directory.) Then
I copied them to c:\programme\lyx. After this I set my path to c:\aspell\bin
. Under linux I had never any problems.
used software: windows xp/sp2, lyx 1.3.7-pre4, aspell0.50.3
I used the following homepage:
http://homepages.fh-giessen.de/~hg8416/studium/Allgemeines/Diplomarbeiten/Howto_Lyx_unter_Windows.pdf
(only in german)
So I hope I gave enough information and hope you can help me.
(Please excuse my bad english :-) )
Christopher
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Re: Add Function Aspell (was Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2)
Thank you very much that really solved my problem. I think i did nearly everything before, except from clearing the aspell.conf Thanx a lot Alex Lyx is a very good program. Am 20.10.2005 um 10:47 schrieb Andre Berger: * Alexander Gahr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-10-20 09:59 +0200: Hm tried this before but gave it another try. I installed lyx cocoaspell or aspell only. Removed /Users/gahr/Library/Application Support/LyX this is the place where in the apple installation the perferences are stored. But i have the same problem i can't add word to a dictionary from within lyx. No top-posting, please! I didn't make clear enough I suggested to remove the aspell preferences files, $YOURPREFIX/etc/aspell.conf and ~/.aspell.conf! -Andre
Re: Add Function Aspell (was Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2)
* Alexander Gahr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-10-20 09:59 +0200: > Hm tried this before but gave it another try. > I installed lyx cocoaspell or aspell only. > Removed /Users/gahr/Library/Application Support/LyX this is the place > where in the apple installation the perferences are stored. > > But i have the same problem i can't add word to a dictionary from within > lyx. No top-posting, please! I didn't make clear enough I suggested to remove the aspell preferences files, $YOURPREFIX/etc/aspell.conf and ~/.aspell.conf! -Andre
Re: Add Function Aspell (was Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2)
- Original Message - From: "Alexander Gahr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:03 AM Subject: Add Function Aspell (was Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2) Hm tried this before but gave it another try. I installed lyx cocoaspell or aspell only. Removed /Users/gahr/Library/Application Support/LyX this is the place where in the apple installation the perferences are stored. But i have the same problem i can't add word to a dictionary from within lyx. Alex As I already mentioned this works for me without enabling Personal dictionary within LyX. I did come across this advice under lyxrc: # Specify an alternate personal dictionary file. If the file name does not # begin with "/", $HOME is prefixed. The default is to search for a personal # dictionary in both the current directory and $HOME, creating one in $HOME # if none is found. The preferred name is constructed by appending ".ispell_" # to the base name of the hash file. For example, if you use the English # dictionary, your personal dictionary would be named ".ispell_english". #\use_personal_dictionary true #\personal_dictionary .ispell_dansk This seems to suggest that the last two lines would need to be uncommented appropriately in order to enable an alternate personal dictionary.
Re: Add Function Aspell (was Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2)
- Original Message - From: "Alexander Gahr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:03 AM Subject: Add Function Aspell (was Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2) Hm tried this before but gave it another try. I installed lyx cocoaspell or aspell only. Removed /Users/gahr/Library/Application Support/LyX this is the place where in the apple installation the perferences are stored. But i have the same problem i can't add word to a dictionary from within lyx. Alex Sometimes things don't work cross-platform. For instance extra-dicts doesn't work for Win32. But this situation is pretty basic. Remove anything from LyX-->Edit-->Preferences-->Language settings, Spellchecker-->personal dictionary. Just use the master dictionary. This setting has never been needed to add words to the personal dict. On Win32, it will only accept the generic .ispell suffixed filename. So, then you are just using one master dictionary. When you spellcheck the window pops open and gives you a choice to ignore, replace or add. Replace will change the spelling of the word displayed but not add it to your personal dictionary. Add, does not change the display spelling, but that word is now part of your personal dictionary and should not come up again as a misspelled word. You can test this by deliberately adding some misspelled words by typing a sentence in LyX : quoxitic nautilis fidociary and then add them all. Then "cat en.pws" (or win32 "type en.pws") if using English language. The added misspelled words should be appended to the bottom of the list. If the test doesn't work (display the newly added words) then that means the en.pws is not being written to, probably a path error. If you had a large list of technical words not usually found in a dictionary and you wanted to add them to your dictionary. Dump the word lists of both the standard and technical dictionaries, merge them, and then use "aspell create master" to recreate a combined dictionary. If there is a word that one wants to change the spelling of in several instances, search and replace is usually used. Bennett is the resident os x guru. en.pws is the filename of the personal dictionary under win32, at least. Also, perhaps it will be necessary to "reconfigure" after erasing the personal dict field. Looks like an error in your configuration files. Move all of them out of the way! In LyX, leave the personal dictionary field blank. Add a word, and ~/.aspell*pws should be created. -Andre -- Highspeed-Freiheit. Bei GMX supergünstig, z.B. GMX DSL_Cityflat, DSL-Flatrate für nur 4,99 Euro/Monat* http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl
Add Function Aspell (was Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2)
Hm tried this before but gave it another try. I installed lyx cocoaspell or aspell only. Removed /Users/gahr/Library/Application Support/LyX this is the place where in the apple installation the perferences are stored. But i have the same problem i can't add word to a dictionary from within lyx. Alex Re: Add Function Aspell (was Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2) Andre Berger Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:20:22 -0700 * Alexander Gahr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-10-19 17:40 +0200: > So i tried some more and i'm thinking that cocoaspell is working again and > i have choosen the en.pws file that cocaspell creates. > > I can perfectly add some word to this personal word list from outside of > lyx but > > If i try it from within lyx the situation is that lyx know all new words > cocoaspell leared outside of lyx, but it will not add any new words. > > I think the add button is simply not working in my case. > So all the problems before result in an not working add funktion within > lyx. > > Anybody a clue? > > Using : > > OsX 10.4.2 > Lyx 1.3.6 > CocoAspell 2.02 (Apspell 6.0) Looks like an error in your configuration files. Move all of them out of the way! In LyX, leave the personal dictionary field blank. Add a word, and ~/.aspell*pws should be created. -Andre -- Highspeed-Freiheit. Bei GMX supergünstig, z.B. GMX DSL_Cityflat, DSL-Flatrate für nur 4,99 Euro/Monat* http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl
Re: Add Function Aspell (was Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2)
* Alexander Gahr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-10-19 17:40 +0200: > So i tried some more and i'm thinking that cocoaspell is working again and > i have choosen the en.pws file that cocaspell creates. > > I can perfectly add some word to this personal word list from outside of > lyx but > > If i try it from within lyx the situation is that lyx know all new words > cocoaspell leared outside of lyx, but it will not add any new words. > > I think the add button is simply not working in my case. > So all the problems before result in an not working add funktion within > lyx. > > Anybody a clue? > > Using : > > OsX 10.4.2 > Lyx 1.3.6 > CocoAspell 2.02 (Apspell 6.0) Looks like an error in your configuration files. Move all of them out of the way! In LyX, leave the personal dictionary field blank. Add a word, and ~/.aspell*pws should be created. -Andre
Add Function Aspell (was Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2)
So i tried some more and i'm thinking that cocoaspell is working again and i have choosen the en.pws file that cocaspell creates. I can perfectly add some word to this personal word list from outside of lyx but If i try it from within lyx the situation is that lyx know all new words cocoaspell leared outside of lyx, but it will not add any new words. I think the add button is simply not working in my case. So all the problems before result in an not working add funktion within lyx. Anybody a clue? Using : OsX 10.4.2 Lyx 1.3.6 CocoAspell 2.02 (Apspell 6.0) Alex -- Lust, ein paar Euro nebenbei zu verdienen? Ohne Kosten, ohne Risiko! Satte Provisionen für GMX Partner: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/partner
Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2
- Original Message - From: "Alexander Gahr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 1:29 AM Subject: Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2 >>How do I get a Personal dictionnaires in Aspell to use with lyx. >>I don't want to tell the program every time it starts my special words >>again and again. >> >> >>How do i create it. I know how to choose it in Lyx. >> >>Thanks Alex > > > > >That is covered by Aspell documentation and configuration. > >http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/aspell-user/2001-04/msg8.html > >http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/aspell-user/2004-08/msg00037.html > >http://aspell.sourceforge.net/man-html/ Thanks i allreay read the manual. In the lyx manual there is written that the personal dictionary file will be created if i put in a new name in the perfereces in lyx. And after first succsessfull checkeing there will be a personal dictonary file. My problem is either with apspell direkt or with cocoaspell, that no new words will be learned. I'm realy and i don't know what else i can do. I unistalled lyx. Unistalled aspell. Cocoaspell. etc. Someone got the same problem or can anybody help me. Could this be a right problem? Alex -- 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++
Re: Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2
- Original Message - From: "Alexander Gahr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 1:29 AM Subject: Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2 How do I get a Personal dictionnaires in Aspell to use with lyx. I don't want to tell the program every time it starts my special words again and again. How do i create it. I know how to choose it in Lyx. Thanks Alex That is covered by Aspell documentation and configuration. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/aspell-user/2001-04/msg8.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/aspell-user/2004-08/msg00037.html http://aspell.sourceforge.net/man-html/
Re: Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2
Yes i installed all that and i checked with spotlight if the is something more around there is nothing i think. aspell was not working anymore from within lyx neither from the command line. So i think i did a clean install of aspell. Followed the ./configure make sudo make install steps. Now aspell is working again from the command line and from within lyx. But i will not create this f*+ personal dictionary file. Someone got some more ideas? Am 18.10.2005 um 18:14 schrieb Bennett Helm: On Oct 18, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Alexander Gahr wrote: Ok unistallend coco apell. e.g. draged coco aspell to trash and the removed symbolic link . Now i tried nearly everything but i still wont get a personal dictionary. I'm writing in german so i have to use the german dictionary. I's this a problem with Tiger? Not for me. Note that uninstalling cocoAspell is more involved than you describe. (There's at least the preference pane it installs, though I forget where (/Library/PreferencePanes or /System/Library/ PreferencePanes or ~/Library/PreferencePanes), and there may be more that I've forgotten.) Also, with cocoAspell 2.0, there's no need for a symbolic link. You don't say whether you've installed aspell and a dictionary. It won't work without that. Bennett
Re: Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2
On Oct 18, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Alexander Gahr wrote: Ok unistallend coco apell. e.g. draged coco aspell to trash and the removed symbolic link . Now i tried nearly everything but i still wont get a personal dictionary. I'm writing in german so i have to use the german dictionary. I's this a problem with Tiger? Not for me. Note that uninstalling cocoAspell is more involved than you describe. (There's at least the preference pane it installs, though I forget where (/Library/PreferencePanes or /System/Library/PreferencePanes or ~/Library/PreferencePanes), and there may be more that I've forgotten.) Also, with cocoAspell 2.0, there's no need for a symbolic link. You don't say whether you've installed aspell and a dictionary. It won't work without that. Bennett
Re: Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2
Ok unistallend coco apell. e.g. draged coco aspell to trash and the removed symbolic link . Now i tried nearly everything but i still wont get a personal dictionary. I'm writing in german so i have to use the german dictionary. I's this a problem with Tiger? Am 18.10.2005 um 16:21 schrieb Bennett Helm: On Oct 18, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Alexander Gahr wrote: Ok tried this again. I created a new Lyx file with two words, one was new for apell. So i entered a name for my personal dict /users/gahr/Documents/ test.ispell. Klicked save button. But after checking adding a new word to personal dic and spellchecking completed there was no file /users/gahr/Documents/ test.ispell So i tried another way and i created manually a new empty text file named it /users/gahr/Documents/test.ispell. But after checking and adding one word this file still remains empty. I'm using coco aspell, is this possible that the error is in coco aspell??? It could be. As I've said in another recent post, I've never had luck with cocoAspell since the 2.0 beta came out. I'd recommend aspell itself. For instructions on how to install it, go here: <http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling>. Bennett
Re: Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2
On Oct 18, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Alexander Gahr wrote: Ok tried this again. I created a new Lyx file with two words, one was new for apell. So i entered a name for my personal dict /users/gahr/Documents/test.ispell. Klicked save button. But after checking adding a new word to personal dic and spellchecking completed there was no file /users/gahr/Documents/test.ispell So i tried another way and i created manually a new empty text file named it /users/gahr/Documents/test.ispell. But after checking and adding one word this file still remains empty. I'm using coco aspell, is this possible that the error is in coco aspell??? It could be. As I've said in another recent post, I've never had luck with cocoAspell since the 2.0 beta came out. I'd recommend aspell itself. For instructions on how to install it, go here: <http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling>. Bennett I have been using cocoAspell version 1.4.2 with LyX 1.3.5 on OS X 10.3.6. The personal dictionary file is ".aspell.english.pws". Under LyX Preferences I have "aspell" set in the pull down menu, and personal dictionary is blank. I assume that cocoAspell finds the personal dictionary independent of the LyX setting. Seems to work for me. Steve
Re: Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2
On Oct 18, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Alexander Gahr wrote: Ok tried this again. I created a new Lyx file with two words, one was new for apell. So i entered a name for my personal dict /users/gahr/Documents/ test.ispell. Klicked save button. But after checking adding a new word to personal dic and spellchecking completed there was no file /users/gahr/Documents/ test.ispell So i tried another way and i created manually a new empty text file named it /users/gahr/Documents/test.ispell. But after checking and adding one word this file still remains empty. I'm using coco aspell, is this possible that the error is in coco aspell??? It could be. As I've said in another recent post, I've never had luck with cocoAspell since the 2.0 beta came out. I'd recommend aspell itself. For instructions on how to install it, go here: wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling>. Bennett
Re: Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2
Ok tried this again. I created a new Lyx file with two words, one was new for apell. So i entered a name for my personal dict /users/gahr/Documents/ test.ispell. Klicked save button. But after checking adding a new word to personal dic and spellchecking completed there was no file /users/gahr/Documents/ test.ispell So i tried another way and i created manually a new empty text file named it /users/gahr/Documents/test.ispell. But after checking and adding one word this file still remains empty. I'm using coco aspell, is this possible that the error is in coco aspell??? Alex Am 18.10.2005 um 15:49 schrieb Bennett Helm: On Oct 18, 2005, at 9:05 AM, Alexander Gahr wrote: Ok i tried this. I opened the preference in Lyx and entered a file. The Problem: Lyx will not create a new file personal dic file. I can only choose .ispell files. But I am using aspell. How do i get a new personal dictionary? Let me be more explicit. In LyX > Preferences > Language settings > Spellchecker > Personal dictionary, enter a path and filename. (I have "/Users/bennett/Documents/bennett.ispell" in there, but you can use anything, with or without the .ispell ending. When you click on the "Browse" button next to the Personal dictionary field, LyX filters out all files except for .ispell files, which is why I have chosen to keep the .ispell extension in my preferences. But that's not necessary.) Click on the "Save" button. No new file will be created yet, however. For that, you need to spellcheck a document and add a new word. Then that file will be created containing that word, and new words will be appended to the file whenever you add them. Note that the file is simply a plain text file; it doesn't matter that you're using aspell with a personal dictionary that has ".ispell" in it or ".txt" or even no extension at all. That this file is plain text means that you can open it in any text editor to check your list, and even modify it if you like. Bennett
Re: Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2
On Oct 18, 2005, at 9:05 AM, Alexander Gahr wrote: Ok i tried this. I opened the preference in Lyx and entered a file. The Problem: Lyx will not create a new file personal dic file. I can only choose .ispell files. But I am using aspell. How do i get a new personal dictionary? Let me be more explicit. In LyX > Preferences > Language settings > Spellchecker > Personal dictionary, enter a path and filename. (I have "/Users/bennett/Documents/bennett.ispell" in there, but you can use anything, with or without the .ispell ending. When you click on the "Browse" button next to the Personal dictionary field, LyX filters out all files except for .ispell files, which is why I have chosen to keep the .ispell extension in my preferences. But that's not necessary.) Click on the "Save" button. No new file will be created yet, however. For that, you need to spellcheck a document and add a new word. Then that file will be created containing that word, and new words will be appended to the file whenever you add them. Note that the file is simply a plain text file; it doesn't matter that you're using aspell with a personal dictionary that has ".ispell" in it or ".txt" or even no extension at all. That this file is plain text means that you can open it in any text editor to check your list, and even modify it if you like. Bennett
Re: Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2
Ok i tried this. I opened the preference in Lyx and entered a file. The Problem: Lyx will not create a new file personal dic file. I can only choose .ispell files. But I am using aspell. How do i get a new personal dictionary? Am 18.10.2005 um 14:39 schrieb Bennett Helm: On Oct 18, 2005, at 4:29 AM, Alexander Gahr wrote: How do I get a Personal dictionnaires in Aspell to use with lyx. I don't want to tell the program every time it starts my special words again and again. How do i create it. I know how to choose it in Lyx. Simply entering the filename and path you want in LyX's spelling preferences will suffice. Bennett
Re: Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2
On Oct 18, 2005, at 4:29 AM, Alexander Gahr wrote: How do I get a Personal dictionnaires in Aspell to use with lyx. I don't want to tell the program every time it starts my special words again and again. How do i create it. I know how to choose it in Lyx. Simply entering the filename and path you want in LyX's spelling preferences will suffice. Bennett
Aspell personal dictionnaires OsX 10.4.2
How do I get a Personal dictionnaires in Aspell to use with lyx. I don't want to tell the program every time it starts my special words again and again. How do i create it. I know how to choose it in Lyx. Thanks Alex
Re: aspell and ispell troubles
On Oct 17, 2005, at 12:11 PM, Giorgio Zavarise wrote: In trying to get a spellchecker working for LyX I had the following troubles (I AM USING LyX FOR MAC, OSX 10.3.9): ASPELL: istallation was ok, I activated all the dictionaries on the control panel, but I get the following error when using LyX: "The file "/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english" can not be opened for reading". Well, the folder exists, and it contains several things but not that file. I am suspicious that the aspell installer put these things in another folder like "/Library/Application Support/ cocoAspell" Is there a way to fix the problem? ISPELL: I got a tar file which requires some knowledge to be installed. Is there any binary package for non-expert users (OSX)? I've frankly had little success with cocoAspell (which, apparently, is what you've used to install aspell, right?). Instead, go right to the source: aspell itself. You can download the source and dictionaries here: <http://aspell.sourceforge.net/>. Because you're getting the source files, you'll need to compile and install them (which is the problem you've had for ispell). But it's really not hard; here's the procedure, which you'll need to do from an administrative account on your Mac. Download and both aspell itself (<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/ aspell-0.60.3.tar.gz>) and the dictionaries you want (ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict>), and make sure they're decompressed. (If you don't see folders with the appopriate names, doubleclick on the .gz files (and, if that only leaves you with .tar files, on these as well) until you have the folders.) Then open Terminal.app, and do the following: 1. Type "cd " (with the space, but without the quotes, and don't hit yet). 2. Drag the folder icon for the aspell program into the Terminal window (text will appear showing the directory the folder is in), and hit . 3. Type "./configure", followed by . That will spew out some incomprehensible messages about what it's doing. 4. When that's done, type "make", followed by . Again, you'll get more output. 5. When that's done, type "sudo make install", followed by . You'll be asked for your password, and you should type it (though nothing will appear on the screen), and then hit . You'll need to repeat steps 1-5 for each of the dictionaries you want to install. (You'll get separate folders for each.) That's it. Now from within LyX, select Edit > Reconfigure, restart LyX when it tells you to, double check that aspell is selected from LyX > Preferences > Spellchecker, and you should be good to go. Bennett
Re: aspell and ispell troubles
* Giorgio Zavarise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-10-17 18:20 +0200: > In trying to get a spellchecker working for LyX I had the following > troubles > (I AM USING LyX FOR MAC, OSX 10.3.9): > > ASPELL: > istallation was ok, I activated all the dictionaries on the control > panel, but I get the following error when using LyX: > "The file "/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english" can not be opened for > reading". > Well, the folder exists, and it contains several things but not that > file. I am suspicious that the aspell installer put these things in > another folder like "/Library/Application Support/cocoAspell" Is there > a way to fix the problem? There is. You need to install the dictionary/-ies. 1. Select aspell (not ispell) in the LyX Preferences dialog, save. 2. In Terminal.app, cd /Library/Application\ Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0 sudo ./configure sudo make sudo make install and repeat steps 2 and 3 likewise for each additional dictionary you want to install. (That's a quote from an earlier post of mine, it should really be added to the FAQ!) > ISPELL: > I got a tar file which requires some knowledge to be installed. Is > there any binary package for non-expert users (OSX)? aspell features a compatibility mode, if you really really need it. -Andre
aspell and ispell troubles
In trying to get a spellchecker working for LyX I had the following troubles (I AM USING LyX FOR MAC, OSX 10.3.9): ASPELL: istallation was ok, I activated all the dictionaries on the control panel, but I get the following error when using LyX: "The file "/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english" can not be opened for reading". Well, the folder exists, and it contains several things but not that file. I am suspicious that the aspell installer put these things in another folder like "/Library/Application Support/cocoAspell" Is there a way to fix the problem? ISPELL: I got a tar file which requires some knowledge to be installed. Is there any binary package for non-expert users (OSX)? best regards Giorgio Zavarise
Re: Guess? Aspell working!
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lyx Contribute" Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 5:24 PM Subject: Guess? Aspell working! Hey people! Thanks a lot for help me! Well, now I know why was not working before: It is necessary to download the 'lean' Aspell -- not the spanish or the portuguese version. After installing that one, you can download the Aspell for your tongues, and to install over it! What a mess! :) -- Peace! Douglas I am not sure what you say is totally correct. I refer everyone to the Aspell website http://aspell.net/win32/ What you have to do is 1) Install Aspell (this is merely the program that checks the spelling and is language independent) http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/w32/Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe 2) Give Aspell a dictionary to use. This requires installing one of the dictionaries. For example Breton http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/w32/Aspell-br-0.50-2-3.exe Downloading a dictionary does not install Aspell again over the top of step 1. If you follow the steps above you can have a working spell checker in no time at all (depending on your connection speed) BTW all this is explained on the Aspell site.. Geoff
Guess? Aspell working!
Hey people! Thanks a lot for help me! Well, now I know why was not working before: It is necessary to download the 'lean' Aspell -- not the spanish or the portuguese version. After installing that one, you can download the Aspell for your tongues, and to install over it! What a mess! :) -- Peace! Douglas ___ Promoção Yahoo! Acesso Grátis: a cada hora navegada você acumula cupons e concorre a mais de 500 prêmios! Participe! http://yahoo.fbiz.com.br/
Re: "Oh-oh --- Aspell is not working!"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh --- I see! Aspell is not working! Now I know! There is no 'aspell.com' or 'aspel.exe' or some aspell executable, and I can't use the command line aspell (DOS prompt), neither inside the exact path (c:\aspell), because the single executable there is the 'aspell-uninstall'! I tried to install it many times, what seems to be the matter? C:\Aspell should contain just the uninstallers (one for aspell and one for the dictionary, I think) plus the readme file and some other miscellaneous stuff. It should also be parent to subdirectories bin, data, dict, and doc, with the actual executables (aspell.exe, dlls, etc.) in the bin folder. If that's not the case, perhaps you run the uninstaller, remove any residual directories, reinstall and, if unsuccessful, post details of what you did here. Paul
"Oh-oh --- Aspell is not working!"
Oh --- I see! Aspell is not working! Now I know! There is no 'aspell.com' or 'aspel.exe' or some aspell executable, and I can't use the command line aspell (DOS prompt), neither inside the exact path (c:\aspell), because the single executable there is the 'aspell-uninstall'! I tried to install it many times, what seems to be the matter? -- Abraços! Douglas ___ Promoção Yahoo! Acesso Grátis: a cada hora navegada você acumula cupons e concorre a mais de 500 prêmios! Participe! http://yahoo.fbiz.com.br/
