On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:05 PM, iustifico <iustif...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello altogether, > I have a copy of lyx (1.6.6.1) running on a mac (Snow Leopard). Everything > works fine. > Now I want some sort of spellchecking. I went for the recommendation of this > page > http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling > and installed cocoAspell. The installation was self-explanatory. Now I > wanted to tell lyx, to use this tool, so I put this line > /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias > into the "Alternative Language" field. When I hit the Spellchecker-Button, > the one with ABC on it, nothing happens. I even tried some misspelling, to > see if lyx finds them. Is there more things to tell Lyx, so it can use > cocaspell?
Did you try reconfiguring LyX? (LyX > Reconfigure, then restarting LyX) Also check LyX > Preferences > Language Settings > Spelling; does aspell show up for the spellchecker engine? If one or the other of these is needed, please modify the wiki to add this instruction. > By the way, there is a great spell-checker on board with OS-X. Isn't it > possible to just use this one? That's on tap for LyX-2.0 (currently in development). BH