Hi there everyone, I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. In general the spell checking works quite well, but some things doesn't work as smoothly as with Microsoft Word 2003: for example compound words. In German you cannot compound arbitrary words to new words. For example "Rechenmaschine" is a valid compound word whilst "Rechnemaschine" is not, though "Rechne" and "Maschine" are German words. Some times you have got to insert a connecting "s" between two words to create a compound word: "Konfiguration" and "Einstellung" are German words, but the compound word is "Konfigurationseinstellung" (note the "s"). In the latter example, aspell thinks that the correct compound is wrong while it doesn't find a mistake in "Konfigurationeinstellung" (without an "s").
So, for German this compound setting seems to be pretty useless. But as we Germans tend to use a lot of compound words, it's still somehow a very important feature. Microsoft Word copes with our language rules very well. Another thing that I am missing compared to Word is a grammar checker. Writing long texts I often change sentences quite some times and sometimes the result doesn't make any sense as I see something different than I write. Thus, I would appreciate a grammer checker. Is aspell capable of checking (German) grammar? I hope some of you cannot only understand my problems but will also be able to provide a working solution. Best regards Dominik
