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jezZ
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Problems with Aspell / Spellchecking…

Post by jezZ »

I´m new to Lyx and impressed so far. My prolem is, that up to now I don´t get the spellchecking working – neither in Version 1.5.6 nor in 1.6.0rc3. I´m on OSX and have installed cocoAspell (recent version of cocoAspell, 2.0.4). I also installed a german dictionary into the proper folder (Library -> Application Support -> cocoAspell). After that I activated the languages in the sytem-preferences. Lyx seems to recognize the dictionaries, as I could choose them in the language-menu.
Every time (regardless of the language I choose) I run the spellchecker I get the following message:

»Das Rechtschreibprogramm konnte nicht gestartet werden
Error: The file "/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english" can not be opened for
reading.«


I tried to change setting both in the documents-window and in the general preferences – without success. What could be the problem here? Does anybody have a working spellchecking configuration for a german dictionary?

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Maksi
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Re: Problems with Aspell / Spellchecking…

Post by Maksi »

I have tried to get CocoASpell working for weeks and finally gave it up as I tend to spellcheck myself and on printed paper anyway.

However, I know that some users managed to install it following these instructions:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling

Note, that you will need to install the XCode Developer Tools from your OS X-Discs (that was the point were I personally decided it is not worth the effort)
A Humanities user of LaTeX :)
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