Am 24.03.2014 um 00:55 schrieb Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com>:
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2014, Charlie Schroeder wrote: > >>> I had a closer look now. I'm on a Mac but this shouldn't make a >>> difference. > > Why not? There are serious differences between Linux and BSD-based OSX. > That's why there are separate download directories for them for many > applications. Because it's handled by C++ code in LyX and this code is portable and platform independent. > >>> This said I have to admit - I cannot reproduce your problem. > > That removes empathy. This sentence I don't understand. >>> One thing I can imagine to create problems is having multiple instances of >>> LyX open. > > Heh! One instance is sufficient for me. > >> Possibly not in Mac, but in Debian Jessie and the same was the case in >> wheezy, aspell has a list of users words added in the /home/user >> directory. This feature of aspell is independent of LyX's personal word list. > > Here, in ~/.lyx/ is a file called pwl_english.dict; in the LyX preferences > under Language Settings -> Spellchecker the default in the top dropdown box > is Aspell; the other choices are Enchant and Hunspell, neither of which are > on my systems. LyX's not using the system programs. LyX has the code for the available spell checkers linked in as shared library references. These libraries are on your systems or LyX wouldn't start, AFAICS. > In ~/.lyx/pwl_english.dict are the words that I've added, including those > in the current document. So they are present, but each time I finish a > chapter and spell check the document those words are highlighted and the > tool pauses for me to tell it to ignore all. And, it doesn't do the latter, > either; I need to tell it to ignore each instance of the same word which is > in the dict file. Are you able to provide a minimal working example file? I'd like to have a LyX document and the pwl_english.dict file. Stephan
