Re: (coco) Aspell and Lyx - how to add a Personal Dictionary file?

Thanks for all your help! None of these suggestions did the trick for me, however :-( I got a number or emails asking me to post a solution if I should ever find one, well, here goes: This solution assumes, that you got the aspell installation to work. The easiest way to do this is to use Cocoa

Re: How to edit

Niklas Huldén writes: > In your program folder you have a program called "Textedit". Use that > program to open the file "/usr/local/etc/aspell.conf". > And as your earlier post said: > Remove the line "home-dir $HOME/Library/Preferences/aspell" (line 38 > including blanks), or disable it by ad

Re: How to edit

Thanks, Ian, for the fast reply > Configuration files should handled with a text editor. I don't know > what that would be for your system but something like Vim, Gedit, Kate > etc. You will probably need to edit this file as root. I am using Lyx 1.6.1 on Mac OS X 10.5.6. Unfortunately, I don't re

How to edit

The Lyx Wiki for the Mac suggests the following: If at this point you are unable to save new words to the personal dictionary you will need to edit the file at /usr/local/etc/ aspell.conf. Remove the line "home-dir $HOME/Library/Preferences/ aspell" (line 38 including blanks), or disable it by

Re: (coco) Aspell and Lyx - how to add a Personal Dictionary file?

Unfortunately, that didn't do the trick. I typed in the path (from User/ on). Maybe that was wrong? I assume, I don't have to actually create any file? Thanks again for the fast response! On Jan 15, 2009, at 4:03 PM, "Bennett Helm" wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at

(coco) Aspell and Lyx - how to add a Personal Dictionary file?

I am successfully working with Lyx 1.6.1 and my installation of coco- Aspell on my Mac with OS X 10.5.6. I have not been able to get the spelling checker to ever learn a word. Under "Preferences > Language Settings > Spellchecker" I have an option to add a Personal Dictionary "Other than the

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