Joost Verburg wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: >> Joost, have you spoken to the Aspell >> people about your work? > > The new Windows installer comes with > many tools that are required to use > all LyX features. dvipost for change > tracking in output, aiksaurus for > the English thesaurus, Aspell for spell > checking, the dtl tools for paths with > spaces etc. > > Most of them were originally UNIX tools > and needed a few changes to make > them work with Windows. I do not have > the time right now to try to make > this all an official part of these > projects. The changes are however not > big. If a new version of a tool is > released and we want to switch to > that version, the modifications can > be made again.
Hmmmm. All of this supposes that you won't fall under a bus or become otherwise indisposed. Seriously, it would make a lot of sense to check your diffs to the originals into the LyX repository. (Did Lars give you write access yet?) Angus