Am 03.05.2011 um 20:23 schrieb Pavel Sanda: > hi all, > > i have a question for people on various linux distros. does hunspell > dictionaries and thesaurus working on your box automatically? (now i mean > vanilla lyx, not packages already fixed by distro packagers). > > i just found that both spelling and also thesaurus dictionaries are > not found automatically and the reason is that in contrast to > aspell we are trying to use new idiom > > lyx::support::package().system_support().absFileName(),dataDirectory() > > for path which usually leads to something like /usr/share/lyx/ +dicts/. > this looks completely wrong, since there is no reason to expect that > we find hunspell dictionaries inside lyx dicrectory. > > is there some reason why to use system_support()? we should use some at least > probable location. also the code written above makes it difficult for package > maintainers to make simple patch for their distros because instead of changing > one string either by ./configure --set-dictionaries or at least in source, > they need to rewrite the code to get rid of 'lyx/' in path.
At the time I stepped in and added this dataDirectory relative to lyx's system and user directories there was only one path for hunspell available: the one in preferences. This one now is the first one visited. The idea to add the other paths was to incorporate some dictionary download into LyX - but it didn't happen - I couldn't afford the development of such a feature. The files to download should be placed in the user directory of LyX. For Linux this is questionable anyway when there is a way to install them with the distros installers system wide. But not all users are able to change there system - I've heard of such stories in the past, on Linux too. So now it is useful for Windows and Mac packages, they distribute the dictionaries exactly there - bundled within LyX. Of course - like I did it for aspell - one easily can extend the lookup for the hunspell dictionaries and add another location to search for, a configure option is a good idea to make it easy to change for the linux packagers. And the linux user too is able to enter the path in the LyX preferences. > where are spellcheck and thesaurus dictionaries on your distros? > (/usr/share/myspell on gentoo) > > thesaurus currently doesn't now issue even any warning from debug::files > level when no path is set in prefs and dictionary is not found. > > the hunspell debug code outputs pointers instead of language and similar, > so fun to debug :) Sorry, I think this must be was a side effect of some change - at first the debug output had path names... Stephan
