>>>>> "Cyrille" == Cyrille Artho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Cyrille> Hi, after upgrading to Debian 3.0r0, the spell checker ispell Cyrille> does not run anymore in Lyx. When I press F7 or select it in Cyrille> the menu, Lyx just waits for a couple of seconds and then Cyrille> returns with no warning or error dialog. This occurred both Cyrille> in 1.2.0 and 1.2.1. ispell is version 3.1.20 10/10/95, patch Cyrille> 1. >> Cyrille> The document language was default (English), and a dictionary Cyrille> for ispell/English is installed (aenglish). >> Since the dictionary is not named 'english' (this is what ispell >> looks for), you need either to create a symlink english->aenglish, >> or in prefs set 'use alternative language: aenglish'. >> Cyrille> Hi Jean-Marc, unfortunately, the first option did not work: Cyrille> Lyx still waits for ispell to time out. I was not sure where Cyrille> to apply the symlink, so I have not tried the second option. Cyrille> The contents of /usr/lib/ispell on my system is: Cyrille> /usr/lib/ispell# ls -l total 852 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5688 Cyrille> Apr 20 2002 american.aff lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 8 Cyrille> 14:34 american.hash -> americanmed+.hash -rw-r--r-- 1 root Cyrille> root 857536 Apr 20 2002 americanmed+.hash lrwxrwxrwx 1 root Cyrille> root 39 Nov 8 14:34 default.aff -> Cyrille> /etc/alternatives/ispell-dictionary.aff lrwxrwxrwx 1 root Cyrille> root 40 Nov 8 14:34 default.hash -> Cyrille> /etc/alternatives/ispell-dictionary.hash OK, so the dictionary is not named 'aenglish' but 'american'. So you can either set the document language to 'american' or in directory /usr/lib/ispell do something like ln -s american.aff english.aff ln -s american.hash english.hash Hope this helps. JMarc
