Am 08.01.2012 um 19:19 schrieb Honest Guvnor: > When the spellchecker in invoked it either appears to do nothing or produces > a popup stating "We reached the end of the document, would you like to > continue from the beginning?". The content is not spellchecked regardless of > the position of the cursor. > > I have read a number of recent threads in the forum about problems with > spellchecking in lyx 2 but so far none of the suggestions have lead to a > solution. > > Background: > - OS is an update-to-date version of 64 bit Scientific Linux 6.1 > - compiling lyx 2.0.2 from source > - hunspell, hunspell-dev, humspell-en, hunspell-uk installed with yum > - devel libraries for aspell or enchant removed > - default settings for configure > - deleting ~/.lyx > > The code compiles without complaint and the configuration uses only hunspell. > Earlier I had tried aspell and enchant but saw the same problem. > > Hunspell works fine from the command line for both the en_US and en_GB > dictionaries. What names is lyx using for these dictionaries?
LyX looks for the files en_US.aff and en_US.dic. > > I am guessing that it is a configuration problem. Is there some logging that > can be turned on to see why it does not seem to be running the text through > hunspell? You may start lyx with -dbg files to see the dictionary lookup working. Try to add the path of the dictionaries to your path prefs of LyX. Stephan
