Hi, Stephan, I find I just need to put dictionary files under $(HOME)/.lyx/dicts/ That is, the dictionaries need to be found by LyX, not just hunspell.
Thanks --Junchao Zhang On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net> wrote: > Am 17.01.2013 um 20:07 schrieb Junchao Zhang <junchao.zh...@gmail.com>: > > > Dear all, > > I installed hunspell, then I installed Lyx. > > Dear Junchao, > > hunspell and LyX are two independent programs. LyX has builtin hunspell > support or not. > > > When I configured Lyx, I could see Lyx found hunspell. > > I understand this as: you can see hunspell as available spell checker in > preferences, right? > > > I set > > export DICPATH=/home/jczhang/usr/share/dict/ > > export DICTIONARY=en_US > > in my bashrc > > > > If I invoke hunspell -D, it will give > > AVAILABLE DICTIONARIES (path is not mandatory for -d option): > > /home/jczhang/usr/share/dict//en_US > > /home/jczhang/usr/share/dict//en_AU > > /home/jczhang/usr/share/dict//en_CA > > ... > > LOADED DICTIONARY: > > /home/jczhang/usr/share/dict//en_US.aff > > /home/jczhang/usr/share/dict//en_US.dic > > Hunspell 1.3.2 > > > > I choose the spellchecker engine in Lyx as hunspell. > > However, when I do spellcheck in Lyx, it just pops a window "Spell > checker has no dictionaries", and no other clues. > > LyX does not find the dictionaries in your home directory. > You have to point it there in LyX path's preferences. > Try to enter /home/jczhang/usr/share/dict and see if it helps. > > Regards, > Stephan -- Junchao Zhang
