On Jun 10, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Christian Liesen wrote:
Hello,
I'm experiencing a problem with installing aspell on Mac OS X 10.4.6.
I followed these instructions by the book: http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/
MacSpelling
What happens is that I end up with two aspell folders on my desktop
(one with aspell itself labeled "aspell-0.60.4", another one with
the desired dictionary labeled "aspell6-en-6.0-0"). These folders
contain files that obviously were generated when running the
configure-, make- and sudo make installation-processes, since their
date is today.
There are no other aspell folders anywhere on my HDD, except for
these two.
I reconfigured Lyx 1.4.1, but it does not recognize aspell at all.
Instead it says that "Error: The file "/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/
ngerman" can not be opened for reading. There is no file named
"ngerman" anywhere on my computer. What's going on here? Did I miss
something?
Most likely, the files have been installed; it's just that they are
hidden by the Mac GUI. You can check to see if they're really there
by going to the Finder and selecting Go > Go to Folder ..., and then
typing in /usr/local/lib to the dialog that pops up. If you don't
find an aspell directory there, something went wrong with the
installation.
Also, double check to make sure that aspell is selected from within
LyX's preferences (LyX > Preferences > Spellchecker > Spellchecker
executable).
Note that in what you've described, you've installed aspell6-en-6.0-0
-- an English dictionary. LyX is apparently looking for a German
dictionary, which it reports it cannot find. If you're spellchecking
German text (i.e., text identified as German within LyX), you'll need
to install the appropriate dictionary.
Bennett
