Sam Lewis a écrit :
"LyX works extremely well under the Windows operating system!"
Outside the office away from the ones own computer, I've been using LyX 1.3.3-Win32 on a USB stick. It works "extremely well" and enables me to access, edit and spell check my fieldnotes, in visiting institutions, by running LyX on public workstations where I've no administrator rights.
Now, having experienced the latest version of LyX, I've tested 1.4.1 on a USB stick. All good, if there wouldn't be the aspell dilemma! As LyX is compiled against libaspell.a and expects to find aspell dictionaries and data files in a predefined location portability has been lost.
I'm interested in underlying decisions of having complied LyX Windows in this specific way nowadays. Are there considerations about integrating aspell in a different way and moreover is there generally a wider interest in the community in a portable LyX?
AFAIK, the problem is not within LyX but in Aspell. Indeed Aspell
dictionaries are not relocatable (under Windows); this means that they
must be installed in the same path where they have been compiled. One
needs to investigate Aspell source code as to know if this could be fixed.
Abdel.
Cheers, Sam
