On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net> wrote: > Am 27.05.2015 um 14:10 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann > <engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de>: > >> >> >> Am 27.05.2015 um 11:28 schrieb Stephan Witt: >>> Am 27.05.2015 um 11:21 schrieb Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> >>> : >>> >>> >>>> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 4:43 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann >>>> >>>> <engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I installed hunspell but can't select it in lyx tools>settings>language >>>>> settings>spellchecker >>>>> (writing is not possible). I did reconfigure. enchant is also installed. >>>>> I am using Kubuntu and Lyx 2.1.3 >>>>> Wolfgang >>>>> >>>> What do you have under Tools > Preferences > Paths > Hunspell? >>>> >>>> In my opinion we should automatically fill that in (e.g. LyX should >>>> try to find the Hunspell libraries). >>>> See also: >>>> >>>> https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg184250.html >>> I think this is another topic. >>> >>> If hunspell is not enabled in settings->spellchecker LyX is compiled >>> without it. The location of the dictionaries doesn't matter, IMO. >>> >>> Stephan >>> >> Thanks to all three of you. I am answering to the three messages. >> The paths allow to search for the Thesaurus, > > The code to implement thesaurus support is always part of LyX. > >> but the Hunspell search box is greyed out and I can'write into it. > > The hunspell dictionary path input field is enabled if and only if > the code of the hunspell engine is part of LyX. This is a decision > of the LyX packager. It looks like the LyX package you're using is > built without any spell checker support. > > >> content of Help > About > Build Info: >> >> LyX 2.1.3 (2015-02-05) >> Erstellt am Feb 12 2015, 11:01:23 >> Configuration >> Host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu >> Special build flags: build=release > > use-hunspell is missing here. > use-enchant is missing too! >
Indeed. Looks like you installed from the official repos, and it seems they don't compile with support for hunspell (or any spellchecker, I'm suspecting). Try installing from the PPA, which is built with support for aspell, hunspell and enchant. Regards, Liviu > Stephan > >> C++ Compiler: g++ (4.8) >> C++ Compiler LyX flags: >> C++ Compiler flags: -O2 >> Linker flags: >> Linker user flags: >> Qt 4 Frontend: >> Qt 4 version: 4.8.6 >> Packaging: posix >> LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin >> LyX files dir: /usr/local/share/lyx >> >> >> Did you install LyX from the PPA or from the Ubuntu repos? >> >> If I remember correctly (Alzheimer light...) the latter. >> >> If hunspell is not enabled in settings->spellchecker LyX is compiled >> without it. The location of the dictionaries doesn't matter, IMO. >> >> as I mentioned I can't enter the path >> >> Wolfgang > > -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
