Paul A. Rubin schrieb: >> It may be that LyX automatically looks for Aspell in the Documents >> and Settings tree for the currently logged on user, and not in the >> All Users tree. > > No, currently aspell is installed in the All Users folder which is > btw. a bug. > > regards Uwe
This is true for the installers provided by berlios. The installers on lyx.org (ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/aspell6-windows/) do allow to choose to install just for the current user. I went ahead and tried this and now I get a different error when spellchecking in lyx 1.5.b2: (translated German) The spellchecking Program could not be started. The file "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\CURRENT_USER\Anwendungsdaten\Aspell\Data\iso-8859-1.cset" can not be opened for reading. This is no surprise, as the folder "Data" does not exist there. However I finally did manage to get spellchecking to work by copying the folder "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users.WINDOWS\Anwendungsdaten\Aspell\Dictionaries" which contained "iso-8859-1.cset" to "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\CURRENT_USER\Anwendungsdaten\Aspell\" and renaming it to "Data". So at least on my machine it does not seem possible to get a running Lyx 1.5.0. beta2 out of the box by just using the provided installer from lyx.org on a clean winxp system (by clean I mean a system which has had lyx 1.4.4. installed and working but everything related to lyx1.4.4/miktex/aspell/imagemagic/gsview etc. was uninstalled prior to the 1.5.b2 installation). The miktex problem is still hazy to me, because it was downloaded and installed during the lyx installation but lyx somehow did not seem to realize it has happened, because After finishing the miktexinstallation and returning to the lyx installer, the lyxinstaller says that miktex was not installed properly. The other (aspell) problem is actually two problems: during installation the dictionaries can not be downloaded by the installer (404 error). This might be due to a wrong url in the lyxinstaller. When installing aspell6 dictionaries manually afterwards, the other problem occurs (see above), which probably is caused by lyx expecting different paths then aspell actually resides in. PS. Just for curiosity, what are the philosophies behind the two different windows installers (the one found on the lyx.org ftp and the one from berlios)
