Am 24.09.2010 um 18:47 schrieb goncalo.b.santos:

> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm using Lyx on a mac (OSX) but am not being able to get the spellchecker
> to work.

You're using which version?

> I've downloaded the latest version of cocoaspell, installed it, went to
> system preferences/spelling/dictionaries and put all the dictionaries in the
> list "on".
> In Lyx I did preferences/language settings/spellchecker/alternative language
> and added "/Library/Application
> Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias"

I did some work on spellchecking for mac in 2.0.0. There it works out of the 
box.
But LyX-2.0.0 not recommended for production.

For 1.6.x I'm not sure how to get it work with cocoAspell.
You're following the description on the wiki closely?

> I then did Lyx/Reconfigure and restarted.
> 
> After doing all this, when I do tools/spellchecker the following message
> appears:
> 
> The spellchecker could not be started
> Error: The file "/Library/Application
> Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias " can not be opened for
> reading.
> 
> Did I do something wrong during the installation process or still need to do
> something else?

Sorry, I have no time to reproduce this for today.

Stephan

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