Stephan Witt wrote: > dictionaries exactly there - bundled within LyX. Of course - like I did > it for aspell - one easily can extend the lookup for the hunspell dictionaries > and add another location to search for, a configure option is a good idea to > make it easy to change for the linux packagers.
that would be very nice indeed. for this moment i'd like to push some info into branch and have it there before release annoucement. it would save me some hours of debugging if knew this as a packager. ok Richard? pavel
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 5382270..ac19125 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ particularly applies to spell checking and the thesaurus. checker used by OpenOffice and Firefox) and enchant, a wrapper that provides automatic access to many spell checking libraries (ispell, aspell, hspell, hunspell, etc.). + System-wide hunspell dictionaries are in standard Linux installs + looked up at /usr/share/lyx/dict/. * On Mac OSX, Apple's Spell Server is preconfigured as the "native" spell checker. @@ -190,6 +192,8 @@ platform/distribution. * The OpenOffice thesaurus dictionaries can be used, but the path to those dictionaries needs to be set in Tools > Preferences. Please refer to the UserGuide, sec. 6.14, for further instructions. + In standard Linux installs the system-wide thesauri are looked up at + /usr/share/lyx/thes/. Packagers are advised to preset the thesaurus for their distribution/ platform. Packagers of installation bundles (on Windows and the Mac)
