Angus Leeming wrote:
> Ok, Joost. Now done. Files are currently uploading to the usual place.
> Rather nicely, because I'm overwriting existing files with apache:wiki
> ownership, the new versions of these files also have this ownership ;-)
Thanks!
> I modified the aspell_dict.sh script a little to generate a
> placeholder
> GPL copyright for the case when the Copyright file exists but has zero
> size (the German dictionary). Please could you add this to your
> package in place of the existing script?
Done.
SH: Is this the usual place?
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6
I have been following the progress of improving the installation of
a directory other than C:\Aspell, which I thought Joost mentioned.
There was a thread, "Portable LyX" using a usb stick, that missed the
installation of Aspell when visiting other institutions (non-Admin).
So I tried this to see if C:\Aspell flexibility had been expanded.
Imagine my chagrin when I noticed there was no directory location
option offered at all during setup, just verifying where to run it.
I had a thought that maybe installing Aspell to another folder
depended on running the setup from another partition, so I used
my F: drive. It still seems that the install to C: is hardcoded.
Angus Leeming wrote:
>> Noooooooo! I already have these things installed. Trust the user!
Edwin Leuven responded:
> trust the user to mess up
SH: Here I've been a loyal and faithful user/tester apprentice, lo
these many months and I still can't get the simple things right. ;-)
Let me examine the original post by Joost for clues:
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"A new Windows installer for LyX 1.4.2svn is available for testing:
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/lyx-142svn-20060617.exe
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/lyx-142svn-20060617-bundle.exe
Again there are a number of improvements: English thesaurus
(Aiksaurus) is included, Aspell has been fixed to get rid of the
C:\Aspell hard-coding, LyX is now dynamically linked to everything
including libintl and some minor things.
Note that only the English Aspell dictionary will work until Angus
has recompiled the dictionary installers (this will happen within a
few days)."
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SH: Aha, I've been hoodwinked! Or is it a case of an average Word
user 'messing up'? The alternate folder location for C:\Aspell is
accomplished by the new Windows installer, not aspelldata-root.exe,
is that deprecated now? I can imagine some situations where a user
might have LyX installed and just want to change the location of
C:\Aspell to elsewhen, and run reconfigure (maybe it wouldn't work).
Ok, so I'll give this a try using the new installer and report back.
Many and mysterious are the ways a user can mess up :-)
Stephen
