Am 19.04.2010 um 14:39 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: > 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?
See below... > >> 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? Note, the current implementation is guarded by _APPLE_ #ifdef. After some discussion it could be more general... Therefore currently it is Apple-like: 1) aspell user dir: /Users/stephan/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.0.0svn/Aspell.framework/Resources/dict 2) aspell bundle path: /Users/stephan/cvs/lyx/lyx-build/LyX-2.0.0svn.app/Contents/Frameworks/Aspell.framework/Resources/dict 3) macports path: /opt/local/share/aspell >> * 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. Yes, I had the hope to go with enchant or hunspell to have access to 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 For the Apple app $sysdir would be /Users/stephan/cvs/lyx/lyx-build/LyX-2.0.0svn.app/Contents/Resources? > >> * 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. 1) Alternative in the sense of replacement of aspell? 2) Or as another option for the user? I guess the answer is 2) Stephan
