Hi Paul, Thanks so much for your suggestions. In answer to your questions: Yes, it happens with every document I open in Lyx ie Lyx help documents. Yes, I cleaned out all registry keys including any Aspell ones. English is the only language I have installed (for all users). Although in past LyX installations I may have installed French and Chinese - but they are no longer there.
Should I try to contact a developer (how does one do that :)) or should I report this as a bug? It would be so nice if I could just change that stupid path and move on with trying to finish my paper!! Rose -----Original Message----- From: Paul A. Rubin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 October 2007 14:24 To: Rosanna Chan Subject: Re: Lyx 1.5.1 and LyX 1.5.2 Spellchecker Could not be started Rosanna Chan wrote: > Hi again, > I cannot figure out why LyX continue to look for "c:\Documents and > Settings\<me>\Application Data\Aspell\Data/iso-8859-1.cset" for > spellchecking. This happens with every document you try to spellcheck, right? For instance, if you open one of the LyX help documents and hit F7, you get this message? > I have installed LyX for all users both 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 - using the > installers. Before re installing, I had uninstalled all Aspell files (from > all users and from my own application data), clean out the registry for old > LyX 1.4 keys and the message just keeps on poping back up. When you uninstalled Aspell, did you scan the registry for any leftover Aspell keys (and delete any you found)? > Is there any other place that the path Aspell\Data (which is incorrect like > you pointed out) is hiding out? Apparently. :-) We just don't know where. The Windows version of LyX does not use the Aspell executables; it provides its own customized aspell.dll file and just relies on you to install the necessary dictionaries. So it's possible that a funky path is hard-coded into the DLL, or that there's some path detection scheme in it that's tripping over something on your system. We'd need a developer to answer that. (I tried to find the source for the customized aspell.dll in the source repository, but struck out.) Assuming that you get this message in every document you try to debug, the only other thing I can think of to ask is whether you're set up with English as your local language (i.e., the user interface pops up in English), and whether your system is set to use a special code page or some such to display other languages or symbol sets? If so, that might point to what is confusing LyX. (Shooting from the hip here.) /Paul
