On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Abdelrazak Younes <you...@lyx.org> wrote: > Xie Chao wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am using LyX 1.6.2 on Mac OS X Leopard. How can I get the thesaurus >> function work? I installed Aiksaurus, and it is working fine from command >> line terminal. However, there is no "thesaurus" option under "Tools" menu >> (LyX was reconfigured and reinstalled). > > There is a Thesaurus edit box in the LyX 'Path' preferences. You must put in > the path of your thesaurus file.
Thesaurus support was disabled when compiling LyX/Mac because of problems we had previously with incompatible versions of aiksaurus preventing LyX from launching. Besides, the thesaurus in Dictionary.app is much better than that in aiksaurus. Bennett