Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
Hallo! I had the same problem after upgrade to LyX 2.0.0 Beta3. I have installed additional packets libaspell-dev and hunspell-dev, rebuilded LyX and installed again. Now it is working for me fine! Paul Howdy Folks, I installed thru muon, kubuntu 11.4. I had hunspell-en installed at the time but cannot select it.I now have libhunspell-dev installed also. Do I have to reinstall lyx in order to see hunspell in the list of spell checkers? Thanks for your help, Alex
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
Hallo! I had the same problem after upgrade to LyX 2.0.0 Beta3. I have installed additional packets libaspell-dev and hunspell-dev, rebuilded LyX and installed again. Now it is working for me fine! Paul Howdy Folks, I installed thru muon, kubuntu 11.4. I had hunspell-en installed at the time but cannot select it.I now have libhunspell-dev installed also. Do I have to reinstall lyx in order to see hunspell in the list of spell checkers? Thanks for your help, Alex
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
> Hallo! > > I had the same problem after upgrade to LyX 2.0.0 Beta3. I have installed > additional packets libaspell-dev and hunspell-dev, rebuilded LyX and installed > again. Now it is working for me fine! > > Paul Howdy Folks, I installed thru muon, kubuntu 11.4. I had hunspell-en installed at the time but cannot select it.I now have libhunspell-dev installed also. Do I have to reinstall lyx in order to see hunspell in the list of spell checkers? Thanks for your help, Alex > >
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
Kenward Vaughan kay_jay at earthlink.net writes: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Kenward Hallo! I had the same problem after upgrade to LyX 2.0.0 Beta3. I have installed additional packets libaspell-dev and hunspell-dev, rebuilded LyX and installed again. Now it is working for me fine! Paul
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 23:39 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 19:39 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? I found un I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. You did not tell me, how you build it. Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for developers installed. In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the logs. The build ran fine after autoconfig was used. I glanced through the output, and seeing nothing odd ran make and then make install. All per the quick directions. I take it you called ./configure in top directory of source tree... The relevant output here is like ... checking aspell.h usability... yes checking aspell.h presence... yes checking for aspell.h... yes checking for new_aspell_config in -laspell... yes checking whether to use aspell... yes checking for ENCHANT... yes checking whether to use enchant... yes checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx usability... no checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx presence... no checking for hunspell/hunspell.hxx... no checking for main in -lhunspell... no checking whether to use hunspell... no ... You can see I don't have any spell checker library code installed. That's why hunspell is left not available. Please post the relevant output of your configure run for comparison. I didn't have this available since it was built in /tmp a few weeks ago. I pulled in the Lyx code again, installed the aspell *dev package (which was not installed), recompiled, and now things work. Browsing through all the documentation pulled up the information as well that the dev package was required. I think I'll file this as a bug under LyX with Debian... For average users, I'd think this is an item expected to be there. I just saw Paul's note as well (apparently he had the same problem). Thank you very much for your patience and help, Stephan! Kenward -- Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater. Albert Einstein
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
Am 21.01.2011 um 17:25 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 23:39 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 19:39 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. One thing to note: The default is to build LyX with the same preferences directory as LyX 1.6! Perhaps you had the problems with 1.6 because of reading and writing LyX 1.6 the same files as LyX 2.0 - when starting LyX from terminal you may add -dbg lyxrc as command line arguments to verify that. You have to add e.g. --with-version-suffix=-2.0 to make LyX 2.0 using a parallel $HOME/.lyx-2.0 directory for it's settings. I think I'll file this as a bug under LyX with Debian... For average users, I'd think this is an item expected to be there. I just saw Paul's note as well (apparently he had the same problem). Thank you very much for your patience and help, Stephan! You're welcome. Stephan
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 22:01 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: ... I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. One thing to note: The default is to build LyX with the same preferences directory as LyX 1.6! Perhaps you had the problems with 1.6 because of reading and writing LyX 1.6 the same files as LyX 2.0 - when starting LyX from terminal you may add -dbg lyxrc as command line arguments to verify that. I had changed out the .lyx directory for each program, and even deleted the thing to see if that made any difference. It didn't, so I **think** it's the app itself. You have to add e.g. --with-version-suffix=-2.0 to make LyX 2.0 using a parallel $HOME/.lyx-2.0 directory for it's settings. Cool. I'll recompile and do exactly that. Makes life easier... Ciao! Kenward -- Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts... Albert Einstein
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
Kenward Vaughan kay_jay at earthlink.net writes: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Kenward Hallo! I had the same problem after upgrade to LyX 2.0.0 Beta3. I have installed additional packets libaspell-dev and hunspell-dev, rebuilded LyX and installed again. Now it is working for me fine! Paul
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 23:39 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 19:39 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? I found un I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. You did not tell me, how you build it. Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for developers installed. In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the logs. The build ran fine after autoconfig was used. I glanced through the output, and seeing nothing odd ran make and then make install. All per the quick directions. I take it you called ./configure in top directory of source tree... The relevant output here is like ... checking aspell.h usability... yes checking aspell.h presence... yes checking for aspell.h... yes checking for new_aspell_config in -laspell... yes checking whether to use aspell... yes checking for ENCHANT... yes checking whether to use enchant... yes checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx usability... no checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx presence... no checking for hunspell/hunspell.hxx... no checking for main in -lhunspell... no checking whether to use hunspell... no ... You can see I don't have any spell checker library code installed. That's why hunspell is left not available. Please post the relevant output of your configure run for comparison. I didn't have this available since it was built in /tmp a few weeks ago. I pulled in the Lyx code again, installed the aspell *dev package (which was not installed), recompiled, and now things work. Browsing through all the documentation pulled up the information as well that the dev package was required. I think I'll file this as a bug under LyX with Debian... For average users, I'd think this is an item expected to be there. I just saw Paul's note as well (apparently he had the same problem). Thank you very much for your patience and help, Stephan! Kenward -- Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater. Albert Einstein
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
Am 21.01.2011 um 17:25 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 23:39 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 19:39 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. One thing to note: The default is to build LyX with the same preferences directory as LyX 1.6! Perhaps you had the problems with 1.6 because of reading and writing LyX 1.6 the same files as LyX 2.0 - when starting LyX from terminal you may add -dbg lyxrc as command line arguments to verify that. You have to add e.g. --with-version-suffix=-2.0 to make LyX 2.0 using a parallel $HOME/.lyx-2.0 directory for it's settings. I think I'll file this as a bug under LyX with Debian... For average users, I'd think this is an item expected to be there. I just saw Paul's note as well (apparently he had the same problem). Thank you very much for your patience and help, Stephan! You're welcome. Stephan
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 22:01 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: ... I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. One thing to note: The default is to build LyX with the same preferences directory as LyX 1.6! Perhaps you had the problems with 1.6 because of reading and writing LyX 1.6 the same files as LyX 2.0 - when starting LyX from terminal you may add -dbg lyxrc as command line arguments to verify that. I had changed out the .lyx directory for each program, and even deleted the thing to see if that made any difference. It didn't, so I **think** it's the app itself. You have to add e.g. --with-version-suffix=-2.0 to make LyX 2.0 using a parallel $HOME/.lyx-2.0 directory for it's settings. Cool. I'll recompile and do exactly that. Makes life easier... Ciao! Kenward -- Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts... Albert Einstein
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
Kenward Vaughan earthlink.net> writes: > > I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have > no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) > or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. > > I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several > times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences > > Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. > > Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by > restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. > > :(( > > Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? > > Kenward Hallo! I had the same problem after upgrade to LyX 2.0.0 Beta3. I have installed additional packets libaspell-dev and hunspell-dev, rebuilded LyX and installed again. Now it is working for me fine! Paul
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 23:39 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 20.01.2011 um 19:39 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > > > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > >> Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > >> > >>> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > > > I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have > > no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) > > or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. > > > > I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several > > times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences > > > Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. > > > > Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by > > restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. > > > > :(( > > > > Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? > > Did you build LyX yourself? > If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? > >>> I found un > >>> > >>> I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults > >>> came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this > >>> ought to be a default instead of an option. > >> > >> You did not tell me, how you build it. > >> Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for > >> developers installed. > >> In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check > >> the logs. > > > > > > The build ran fine after autoconfig was used. I glanced through the > > output, and seeing nothing odd ran make and then make install. All per > > the quick directions. > > I take it you called ./configure in top directory of source tree... > > The relevant output here is like > > ... > checking aspell.h usability... yes > checking aspell.h presence... yes > checking for aspell.h... yes > checking for new_aspell_config in -laspell... yes > checking whether to use aspell... yes > checking for ENCHANT... yes > checking whether to use enchant... yes > checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx usability... no > checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx presence... no > checking for hunspell/hunspell.hxx... no > checking for main in -lhunspell... no > checking whether to use hunspell... no > ... > > You can see I don't have any spell checker library code installed. > That's why hunspell is left not available. > > Please post the relevant output of your configure run for comparison. I didn't have this available since it was built in /tmp a few weeks ago. I pulled in the Lyx code again, installed the aspell *dev package (which was not installed), recompiled, and now things work. Browsing through all the documentation pulled up the information as well that the dev package was required. I think I'll file this as a bug under LyX with Debian... For average users, I'd think this is an item expected to be there. I just saw Paul's note as well (apparently he had the same problem). Thank you very much for your patience and help, Stephan! Kenward -- Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater. Albert Einstein
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
Am 21.01.2011 um 17:25 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 23:39 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: >> Am 20.01.2011 um 19:39 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: >> >>> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: >> Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: >> >>> I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have >>> no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) >>> or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. >>> >>> I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several >>> times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences > >>> Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. >>> >>> Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by >>> restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. >>> >>> :(( >>> > I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults > came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this > ought to be a default instead of an option. One thing to note: The default is to build LyX with the same preferences directory as LyX 1.6! Perhaps you had the problems with 1.6 because of reading and writing LyX 1.6 the same files as LyX 2.0 - when starting LyX from terminal you may add -dbg lyxrc as command line arguments to verify that. You have to add e.g. --with-version-suffix=-2.0 to make LyX 2.0 using a parallel $HOME/.lyx-2.0 directory for it's settings. > I think I'll file this as a bug under LyX with Debian... For average > users, I'd think this is an item expected to be there. > > I just saw Paul's note as well (apparently he had the same problem). > > Thank you very much for your patience and help, Stephan! You're welcome. Stephan
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 22:01 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > ... > > I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults > > came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this > > ought to be a default instead of an option. > > One thing to note: > > The default is to build LyX with the same preferences directory as LyX 1.6! > Perhaps you had the problems with 1.6 because of reading and writing LyX 1.6 > the same files as LyX 2.0 - when starting LyX from terminal you may add > -dbg lyxrc > as command line arguments to verify that. I had changed out the .lyx directory for each program, and even deleted the thing to see if that made any difference. It didn't, so I **think** it's the app itself. > You have to add e.g. --with-version-suffix=-2.0 to make LyX 2.0 using > a parallel $HOME/.lyx-2.0 directory for it's settings. Cool. I'll recompile and do exactly that. Makes life easier... Ciao! Kenward -- Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts... Albert Einstein
getting LyX to see spellchecker
I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Kenward -- Man does not cease to play because he grows old... Man grows old because he ceases to play. Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting '...Oh, WOW !! ...what a ride...'
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? Regards, Stephan
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. The other LyX version is a Debian package. I'm pretty certain that would be built with the spellchecking turned on, as it makes no sense to not enable that for the masses... Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. You did not tell me, how you build it. Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for developers installed. In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the logs. The other LyX version is a Debian package. I'm pretty certain that would be built with the spellchecking turned on, as it makes no sense to not enable that for the masses... I cannot judge the debian build. I don't have it. But surely sometimes things making no sense happen. Regards, Stephan
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. You did not tell me, how you build it. Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for developers installed. In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the logs. The build ran fine after autoconfig was used. I glanced through the output, and seeing nothing odd ran make and then make install. All per the quick directions. The other LyX version is a Debian package. I'm pretty certain that would be built with the spellchecking turned on, as it makes no sense to not enable that for the masses... I cannot judge the debian build. I don't have it. But surely sometimes things making no sense happen. My comment was only about the fact that I expect the build to be normal. Spell checking has always worked before. Is there some place within LyX's files where the spell checker is noted? I couldn't find anything on a quick scan... Kenward -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.--attrib. to Ferdinand Magellan by R. Ingersoll
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
Am 20.01.2011 um 19:39 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. You did not tell me, how you build it. Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for developers installed. In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the logs. The build ran fine after autoconfig was used. I glanced through the output, and seeing nothing odd ran make and then make install. All per the quick directions. I take it you called ./configure in top directory of source tree... The relevant output here is like ... checking aspell.h usability... yes checking aspell.h presence... yes checking for aspell.h... yes checking for new_aspell_config in -laspell... yes checking whether to use aspell... yes checking for ENCHANT... yes checking whether to use enchant... yes checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx usability... no checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx presence... no checking for hunspell/hunspell.hxx... no checking for main in -lhunspell... no checking whether to use hunspell... no ... You can see I don't have any spell checker library code installed. That's why hunspell is left not available. Please post the relevant output of your configure run for comparison. The other LyX version is a Debian package. I'm pretty certain that would be built with the spellchecking turned on, as it makes no sense to not enable that for the masses... I cannot judge the debian build. I don't have it. But surely sometimes things making no sense happen. My comment was only about the fact that I expect the build to be normal. Spell checking has always worked before. Is there some place within LyX's files where the spell checker is noted? I couldn't find anything on a quick scan... The only location I know of on Linux is the preferences file in your home. Stephan
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
Am 20.01.2011 um 23:39 schrieb Stephan Witt: Am 20.01.2011 um 19:39 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. You did not tell me, how you build it. Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for developers installed. In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the logs. The build ran fine after autoconfig was used. I glanced through the output, and seeing nothing odd ran make and then make install. All per the quick directions. I take it you called ./configure in top directory of source tree... The relevant output here is like ... checking aspell.h usability... yes checking aspell.h presence... yes checking for aspell.h... yes checking for new_aspell_config in -laspell... yes checking whether to use aspell... yes checking for ENCHANT... yes checking whether to use enchant... yes checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx usability... no checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx presence... no checking for hunspell/hunspell.hxx... no checking for main in -lhunspell... no checking whether to use hunspell... no ... You can see I don't have any spell checker library code installed. Sorry, should be: I don't have any hunspell spell checker library code installed That's why hunspell is left not available. Please post the relevant output of your configure run for comparison. Stephan
getting LyX to see spellchecker
I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Kenward -- Man does not cease to play because he grows old... Man grows old because he ceases to play. Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting '...Oh, WOW !! ...what a ride...'
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? Regards, Stephan
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. The other LyX version is a Debian package. I'm pretty certain that would be built with the spellchecking turned on, as it makes no sense to not enable that for the masses... Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. You did not tell me, how you build it. Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for developers installed. In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the logs. The other LyX version is a Debian package. I'm pretty certain that would be built with the spellchecking turned on, as it makes no sense to not enable that for the masses... I cannot judge the debian build. I don't have it. But surely sometimes things making no sense happen. Regards, Stephan
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. You did not tell me, how you build it. Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for developers installed. In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the logs. The build ran fine after autoconfig was used. I glanced through the output, and seeing nothing odd ran make and then make install. All per the quick directions. The other LyX version is a Debian package. I'm pretty certain that would be built with the spellchecking turned on, as it makes no sense to not enable that for the masses... I cannot judge the debian build. I don't have it. But surely sometimes things making no sense happen. My comment was only about the fact that I expect the build to be normal. Spell checking has always worked before. Is there some place within LyX's files where the spell checker is noted? I couldn't find anything on a quick scan... Kenward -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.--attrib. to Ferdinand Magellan by R. Ingersoll
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
Am 20.01.2011 um 19:39 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. You did not tell me, how you build it. Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for developers installed. In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the logs. The build ran fine after autoconfig was used. I glanced through the output, and seeing nothing odd ran make and then make install. All per the quick directions. I take it you called ./configure in top directory of source tree... The relevant output here is like ... checking aspell.h usability... yes checking aspell.h presence... yes checking for aspell.h... yes checking for new_aspell_config in -laspell... yes checking whether to use aspell... yes checking for ENCHANT... yes checking whether to use enchant... yes checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx usability... no checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx presence... no checking for hunspell/hunspell.hxx... no checking for main in -lhunspell... no checking whether to use hunspell... no ... You can see I don't have any spell checker library code installed. That's why hunspell is left not available. Please post the relevant output of your configure run for comparison. The other LyX version is a Debian package. I'm pretty certain that would be built with the spellchecking turned on, as it makes no sense to not enable that for the masses... I cannot judge the debian build. I don't have it. But surely sometimes things making no sense happen. My comment was only about the fact that I expect the build to be normal. Spell checking has always worked before. Is there some place within LyX's files where the spell checker is noted? I couldn't find anything on a quick scan... The only location I know of on Linux is the preferences file in your home. Stephan
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
Am 20.01.2011 um 23:39 schrieb Stephan Witt: Am 20.01.2011 um 19:39 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. You did not tell me, how you build it. Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for developers installed. In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the logs. The build ran fine after autoconfig was used. I glanced through the output, and seeing nothing odd ran make and then make install. All per the quick directions. I take it you called ./configure in top directory of source tree... The relevant output here is like ... checking aspell.h usability... yes checking aspell.h presence... yes checking for aspell.h... yes checking for new_aspell_config in -laspell... yes checking whether to use aspell... yes checking for ENCHANT... yes checking whether to use enchant... yes checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx usability... no checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx presence... no checking for hunspell/hunspell.hxx... no checking for main in -lhunspell... no checking whether to use hunspell... no ... You can see I don't have any spell checker library code installed. Sorry, should be: I don't have any hunspell spell checker library code installed That's why hunspell is left not available. Please post the relevant output of your configure run for comparison. Stephan
getting LyX to see spellchecker
I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences > Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Kenward -- "Man does not cease to play because he grows old... Man grows old because he ceases to play." "Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting '...Oh, WOW !! ...what a ride...' "
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have > no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) > or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. > > I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several > times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences > > Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. > > Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by > restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. > > :(( > > Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? Regards, Stephan
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > > > I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have > > no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) > > or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. > > > > I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several > > times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences > > > Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. > > > > Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by > > restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. > > > > :(( > > > > Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? > > Did you build LyX yourself? > If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. The other LyX version is a Debian package. I'm pretty certain that would be built with the spellchecking turned on, as it makes no sense to not enable that for the masses... Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: >> Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: >> >>> I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have >>> no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) >>> or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. >>> >>> I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several >>> times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences > >>> Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. >>> >>> Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by >>> restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. >>> >>> :(( >>> >>> Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? >> >> Did you build LyX yourself? >> If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? > > > I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults > came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this > ought to be a default instead of an option. You did not tell me, how you build it. Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for developers installed. In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the logs. > The other LyX version is a Debian package. I'm pretty certain that > would be built with the spellchecking turned on, as it makes no sense to > not enable that for the masses... I cannot judge the debian build. I don't have it. But surely sometimes things making no sense happen. Regards, Stephan
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > > > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > >> Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > >> > >>> I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have > >>> no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) > >>> or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. > >>> > >>> I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several > >>> times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences > > >>> Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. > >>> > >>> Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by > >>> restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. > >>> > >>> :(( > >>> > >>> Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? > >> > >> Did you build LyX yourself? > >> If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? > > > > > > I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults > > came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this > > ought to be a default instead of an option. > > You did not tell me, how you build it. > Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for > developers installed. > In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the > logs. The build ran fine after autoconfig was used. I glanced through the output, and seeing nothing odd ran make and then make install. All per the quick directions. > > The other LyX version is a Debian package. I'm pretty certain that > > would be built with the spellchecking turned on, as it makes no sense to > > not enable that for the masses... > > I cannot judge the debian build. I don't have it. > But surely sometimes things making no sense happen. My comment was only about the fact that I expect the build to be normal. Spell checking has always worked before. Is there some place within LyX's files where the spell checker is noted? I couldn't find anything on a quick scan... Kenward -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.--attrib. to Ferdinand Magellan by R. Ingersoll
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
Am 20.01.2011 um 19:39 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: >> Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: >> >>> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have > no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) > or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. > > I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several > times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences > > Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. > > Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by > restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. > > :(( > > Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? >>> >>> >>> I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults >>> came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this >>> ought to be a default instead of an option. >> >> You did not tell me, how you build it. >> Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for >> developers installed. >> In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the >> logs. > > > The build ran fine after autoconfig was used. I glanced through the > output, and seeing nothing odd ran make and then make install. All per > the quick directions. I take it you called ./configure in top directory of source tree... The relevant output here is like ... checking aspell.h usability... yes checking aspell.h presence... yes checking for aspell.h... yes checking for new_aspell_config in -laspell... yes checking whether to use aspell... yes checking for ENCHANT... yes checking whether to use enchant... yes checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx usability... no checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx presence... no checking for hunspell/hunspell.hxx... no checking for main in -lhunspell... no checking whether to use hunspell... no ... You can see I don't have any spell checker library code installed. That's why hunspell is left not available. Please post the relevant output of your configure run for comparison. >>> The other LyX version is a Debian package. I'm pretty certain that >>> would be built with the spellchecking turned on, as it makes no sense to >>> not enable that for the masses... >> >> I cannot judge the debian build. I don't have it. >> But surely sometimes things making no sense happen. > > > My comment was only about the fact that I expect the build to be normal. > Spell checking has always worked before. > > Is there some place within LyX's files where the spell checker is noted? > I couldn't find anything on a quick scan... The only location I know of on Linux is the preferences file in your home. Stephan
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
Am 20.01.2011 um 23:39 schrieb Stephan Witt: > Am 20.01.2011 um 19:39 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > >> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: >>> Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: >>> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > >> I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have >> no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) >> or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. >> >> I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several >> times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences > >> Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. >> >> Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by >> restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. >> >> :(( >> >> Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? > > Did you build LyX yourself? > If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. >>> >>> You did not tell me, how you build it. >>> Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for >>> developers installed. >>> In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the >>> logs. >> >> >> The build ran fine after autoconfig was used. I glanced through the >> output, and seeing nothing odd ran make and then make install. All per >> the quick directions. > > I take it you called ./configure in top directory of source tree... > > The relevant output here is like > > ... > checking aspell.h usability... yes > checking aspell.h presence... yes > checking for aspell.h... yes > checking for new_aspell_config in -laspell... yes > checking whether to use aspell... yes > checking for ENCHANT... yes > checking whether to use enchant... yes > checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx usability... no > checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx presence... no > checking for hunspell/hunspell.hxx... no > checking for main in -lhunspell... no > checking whether to use hunspell... no > ... > > You can see I don't have any spell checker library code installed. Sorry, should be: I don't have any "hunspell" spell checker library code installed > That's why hunspell is left not available. > > Please post the relevant output of your configure run for comparison. Stephan
