Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When LyX looks for sh, convert or other applications, it just looks > inside the PATH environment variable.
Having set the PATH environment variable as appropriate, using the contents of the \path_prefix entry from lyxrc.defaults/preferences... > That should be fine for aspell.exe as well. We don't use aspell.exe. We link aspell.lib statically into lyx.exe. It's perfectly possible to install (and use) the dictionaries without installing aspell.exe. Aspell has a recommended way for doing this stuff. If we're going to go to the effort of changing, we should go the whole hog and do it right. > > I can write the shell script. In fact, if you create an installer > > for the english dictionary and tell me exactly what you did and > > what you needed to grab, I'll do so. > > All the installer has to do is extract the files to a location as given > by the user, probably with C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60 as default. > > NSIS comes with a tool called Zip2Exe, which converts a zip file to a > nice installer. If your shell script can provide a zip file with the > compiled dictionary files, this tool will do the rest. <shrug>Try it out and supply me with the details of what you did and I'll write you a shell script to automate the process</shrug> Angus
