On Sep 13, 2006, at 1:12 AM, Tristan Krautz wrote:
Hey All,
I have recently installed LyX for Mac OS X and cocoAspell. I am not
able to get aspell to work correctly. At first I got an error
message saying the specified dictionary could not be found. I
addressed this by pasting the path to the dictionary in the
"Alternative language" field in spelling preferences. I longer get
an error message when checking for incorrect spelling.
However, when I click the button to start the spell checker a
window pops up and disappears, followed by a dialogue box telling
me that the spell check is complete. None of the spelling errors
are identified. Furthermore, I can only activate the spell checker
when the text bar is at the very start of the document.
I am new to this, and any advice would be appreciated.
cocoAspell seems to work for some and not for others. I recently
revised the LyXOnMac wiki page to make the option of cocoAspell more
prominent because from what I could tell it was working better than
in the past. However, it is still not consistent.
What I've found some users need to do is to open the Terminal, and
then go to the directory where the aspell library is installed; for
me this involves entering the following:
cd /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0
(You might have it installed at ~/Library/... instead.)
Then (making sure you're in an administrative account on your Mac) type:
sudo make install
followed by your password when it asks. At that point, make sure LyX
is open, select Tools > Reconfigure, and restart LyX. Double check to
make sure that aspell is selected in your spelling preferences (LyX >
Preferences > Spellchecker > Spellchecker executable), and hopefully
things will work.
Let us know if this is successful for you.
Bennett
