Angus Leeming wrote:
IIRC, it was a question of priorities. The path was hard-coded in Ruurd's original port and when I integrated his work into the official LyX sources I just used his code. It is certainly possible to set this path dynamically; we'd have an entry in lyxrc.defaults/preferences like:
When LyX looks for sh, convert or other applications, it just looks inside the PATH environment variable. That should be fine for aspell.exe as well.
I can write the shell script. In fact, if you create an installer for the english dictionary and tell me exactly what you did and what you needed to grab, I'll do so.
All the installer has to do is extract the files to a location as given by the user, probably with C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60 as default.
NSIS comes with a tool called Zip2Exe, which converts a zip file to a nice installer. If your shell script can provide a zip file with the compiled dictionary files, this tool will do the rest.
Joost
