Thank. Yes I am on XP Home. For some reason I have been forgetting to specify this in this thread.
I simply installed ASPELL and ran a reconfigure. Spell checker seems to be working now. Do you think that I should reinstall anyway in case I am missing some functionality that I have not noticed is missing? I have noticed that I seem to be missing the phvr8t font when I try to output a tufte-book document to dvi although the document exports to pdf with no problem and I am not clear if this could be an installation problem or just a tufte- book peculiarity as tufte seems to be in flux at the moment. Thanks again John --- On Mon, 12/21/09, Uwe Stöhr <uwesto...@web.de> wrote: > From: Uwe Stöhr <uwesto...@web.de> > Subject: Re: Missing Aspell ? > To: "John Kane" <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca> > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Monday, December 21, 2009, 12:06 AM > Am 20.12.2009 16:17, schrieb John > Kane: > > > I just installed Lyx on a little netbook and seem to > have lost my spellchecker. > > When I spell check I recieive an error message and > when I check under Tools > > -> Perfernces the spell checker panel which reads > Aspell is greyed out. > > That sounds bad. I assume you are on Windows. Try to do the > following: > > 1. uninstall LyX _completely_ > 2. check if Aspell is still installed on your system, if > som uninstall first all Aspell dictionaries and finally the > main application. > 3. check that there are no Aspell and LyX leftovers in the > Windows registry > 4. Finally open an Internet connection and reinstall LyX > 1.6.5 using the small variant of the alternative LyX for > Windows installer. > > The install will reinstall Aspell and all necessary > dictionaries. The installer also promts you to install > further dictionaries if you like. > > regards Uwe > __________________________________________________________________ Connect with friends from any web browser - no download required. Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger for the Web BETA at http://ca.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php