On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net> wrote: > Am 17.04.2010 um 21:02 schrieb BH: > >> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> thinking about the way to go with spell checkers and thesaurus... >>> >>> Currently the build on Mac is able to include aspell with a subset of >>> dictionaries. >> >> I've just downloaded your alpha2 build, and it seems to run fine for >> me, at least mostly. Spellchecking is a bit weird, though: it seems >> not to recognize any long words. For example, with the splash.lyx doc, >> it doesn't like "documentation", "introduction", "characteristics", >> etc. (It also doesn't like DVI or LaTeX, but that's to be expected.) > > I don't know what the problem is here. Is this a regression?
Yes -- I don't see this in the version of LyX I've compiled. The problem arises for all words > 11 letters long. (Words <= 11 letters are fine.) By the way, when I run your version of LyX from gdb, I get the following warning: warning: Could not find object file "/Users/stephan/cvs/lyx/aspell-0.60.6/common/.libs/cache.o" - no debug information available for "common/cache.cpp". repeating many times (for different files). >>> I've prepared a patch to allow for searching dictionaries at different >>> locations. >>> I'll attach it below. Now LyX/Mac is looking at runtime >>> 1) in LYX_USERDIR, >>> 2) included aspell framework and >>> 3) systems macports installation >>> until it finds any support for the requested language. >>> >>> There are some questions remaining: >>> * Are the locations of the runtime lookup above sensible? >>> * Is aspell the best spell checker available? >>> (At least its the one compiling out of the box on Mac, I failed with >>> enchant and hunspell) >> >> Both enchant and hunspell, installed via macports, work for me with >> cmake. But what would be best is Apple's spellchecker. (Then we >> wouldn't have to worry about dictionaries.) > > I'm having trouble using macports libraries. They are not working with 10.4 > SDK and I failed > to build LyX with configure because of link errors with iconv (some > incompatibility > between iconv in /usr/lib and /opt/local/lib. > > So I'm using self-compiled qt4 and aspell libraries. But the current source > distributions > of hunspell and enchant I couldn't build until now. (Basically I tried > ./configure ; make only) > > Apple's spellchecker provides an C-API as far as I knows. I'll try some > investigations in the future. > >>> >>> * JMarc asked for some more general way for distributing bundled >>> dictionaries. >>> Is there any proposal how to proceed here? >>> * How to give the user the option to install missing dictionaries on her >>> own? >>> The lookup in LYX_USERDIR is only the first step. Should there be some >>> build-in mechanism >>> to help installing (aspell)-dictionaries there? >>> * What is the state of thesaurus support? Can anyone give me some pointer >>> to documentation >>> how it should be enabled for Mac? >> >> I'm not sure what the problem is. In your alpha2 build, it is enabled >> (though it is broken at the moment, as was pointed out in another >> thread). Just point LyX > Preferences > Paths > Thesaurus to the >> location of the mythes dictionaries (which I have at >> LYX_USERDIR/thesaurus), and it should work. > > The problem is: I don't know how to install and use the mythes dictionaries, > exactly. > Is there any documentation at wiki.lyx.org or at some other location? Google > did not help. Grab the mythes source from here: http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/thesaurus.html The English dictionaries are included. (That's where I got them.) Not sure about other languages. BH
