[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a funny affair!
I just wanted to increase some features at my Lyx
(like new document classes, color support on LaTeX
picture, spellchecker, etc.) and I thought about to do
a full install of the MikTex program (the Lyk base for
LaTeX on windows systems). Then, I downloaded about
400mb of MikTex stuff and start installing everything,
which spent me one long day and one gb of HD!
Afterwards I could realize that nothing changes! No
increase feature at Lyx!
My spellchecker is not working, then I tried to
download some about ".ispell" to use on it, then I
realize it must be compiled on linux or cygwin -- wich
I won't install!
The Windows port of LyX uses only aspell, not ispell. In the
preferences section, the spell checker program is listed as ispell and
grayed out (not changeable), but the Windows version is hard-coded to
use aspell.
Almost mad, I started to seek the "aspell" dict to
use on my Lyx, then I downloaded it and installed it,
and afterwards, I configured on Lyx to use aspell
spellchecker.
Really? How? On my copy, Edit->Preferences->Language
settings->Spellchecker->Spell checker program is an inactive control
(can't be changed).
Now Lyx is freezing and that's it!
Did you install aspell to C:\Aspell. IIRC, the path is hard-coded
someplace, so it doesn't work if you put it anywhere else.
You might try running LyX in debug mode to see if it tells you anything
useful. The easiest way to do this is probably to open a command window
in the LyX bin directory and run 'lyx -dbg any'. It will produce a
tremendous message volume in the command window, but all you care about
is the last few messages before LyX freezes.
Good grief!
I'm tired, but would like to ask a simple
question: Is there some way to use a non-english dict
on Lyx (not on theory, but I want some stuff that
really works!)?
AFAIK, the non-English dictionaries in Aspell work, assuming you have
them downloaded. (They are separated downloads from the main program.)
Paul
