I can use English and French dictionaries with CocoAspell with Lyx I have just installed it and selected the relevant dictionaries (US English and French for me). I have not done anything else special to make it work, as far as I can remember.
Murat 2010/3/18 Justin Wood <upas...@gmail.com>: > I could have sworn I had spellchecker working under OS X 10.6.2 (+ x64 > extensions) last week, just by installing the aspell package in MacPorts > (v0.60.6_2). But since then it wouldn't work other than to occasionally * > almost* pop-up the checker window when frantically hitting F7 -- it would > flicker for the briefest moment but never appear. Command line tests of > aspell showed it was installed and working fine. Indeed, if I changed the > LyX preference to ispell -- not installed -- spell checker would complain, > so LyX *was* able to locate aspell. > > Anyway. > > I just installed the latest > cocoAspell<http://people.ict.usc.edu/%7Eleuski/cocoaspell/>(v2.1, with > Snow Leopard updates), which I haven't tried before, and > it now works fine in LyX 1.6.5. Mostly guessing, I selected a few of the > various English dictionaries available from the new spelling Preference Pane > cocoAspell installs. Perhaps that makes a difference somehow? I haven't > tried non-English dictionaries though. > > ~:justin.wood <http://civilisationshift.wordpress.com/>:~ ≤ 350ppm > CO2<http://350.org> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 08:49, Marshall Feldman <ma...@uri.edu> wrote: > >> >> I have the same problem on a Mac (Leopard), and I do have admin. >> privileges. > -- Prof. Murat Yildizoglu Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille 3) GREQAM (UMR CNRS 6579) Centre de la Vieille Charité 2, rue de la Charité 13236 Marseille cedex 02 Bureau 320 Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 27 (standard) Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 70 (secrétariat) Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 47 (bureau) Fax : +33 4 91 90 02 27 e-mail: murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr www : http://www.vcharite.univ-mrs.fr/PP/yildi/index.html http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu ______________________________________________