2010/7/21 Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net>: > On 07/21/2010 12:41 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: >> >> After going without a spellchecker for years on LyX/Mac, I'm ready to take >> the plunge. Reading about installing cocoAspell on the LyX Wiki made me >> nervous, though: sounds like it often fails to work, and it's unclear how >> recent the instructions are. Anyone out there with good spellchecking >> experiences with LyX and the Mac? I'm a Mac guy and not a Terminal guy, so >> installation needs to be pretty easy or I'm going to screw it up. I would >> just love some simple, step-by-step help. >> > I believe 1.6.7 includes much better spelling support for Mac. But this may > only be in a version that Stephen Witt did. Trying asking on lyx-devel about > it.
To my knowledge, the instructions on the wiki for getting cocoAspell to work with LyX are not out of date, and you can follow them without using the Terminal at all. It should work. So try it, and report back any troubles you might have. Stephen has native spellchecking support for the upcoming LyX-2.0 (for which the 5th alpha was recently released). You might try that to see if it works for you (and report back to the list with any positive or negative experiences), but be aware that this alpha release is not something I'd recommend using for serious work. BH
