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:\Aspellbin\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 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:\Aspellbin\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:\Aspellbin\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 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:\Aspellbin\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 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?
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
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?
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?
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 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?
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 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 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?
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: 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
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?
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?
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 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?
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 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 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?
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: 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
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?
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?
>>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 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?
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 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 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?
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
