To do what you want open the terminal application and type the following commands:
cd /usr/local/bin
sudo ln -s /Library/PreferencePanes/Spelling.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/cocoAspell aspell
Note the second command requires you to have administrator privileges, and you will be asked to enter your password. This should create a symbolic link file called aspell in the /usr/local/bin directory that points back to the cocoAspell file.
To make sure you have done this correctly, from the /usr/local/bin directory, type:
ls -la | more
In the output that follows, look for the line for aspell, if it is configured correctly, the line should contain:
aspell -> /Library/PreferencePanes/Spelling.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/cocoAspell
Then, go into LyX preferences and specify aspell as the spell checker.
This should do it.
Tn
On Jan 23, 2005, at 11:27 PM, James Bennett wrote:
Hi,
I'm just a beginner trying to set up LyX on my Mac (OS 10.3.7), which I recently downloaded from the wiki.lyx site.
The problem is that I can't figure out how to make cocoAspell (the
recommended spellchecker) work with LyX. The instruction on the wiki.lyx
site is to "make a symbolic link from
/Library/PreferencePanes/Spelling.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/cocoAspell to
/usr/local/bin/aspell"
I'm not sure how to do this, or if it's even possible - any pointers?
James Bennett