Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net> writes: > Currently the build on Mac is able to include aspell with a subset of > dictionaries. > 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,
Where exactly? > 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? Could you give typical examples? > * 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) Enchant is only a wrapper for other spellcheckers. As you say below the other alternative is the native OS X spellchecker. > * JMarc asked for some more general way for distributing bundled dictionaries. > Is there any proposal how to proceed here? What I would propose is to put dictionaries in $sysdir/aspell-dicts $userdir/aspell-dicts > * What is the potential gain in support for native spellchecker/thesaurus of > Mac OS X? > Would that be desirably? I think this should be an alternative to aspell, since it is the tool used by all other programs, after all. JMarc
