On Saturday, 18. August 2007 11:42 Joost Verburg wrote: thanks a lot, Joost, for your immediate help.
> It looks like you have quite some old Aspell files on your computer. I do not think so. I had installed the current version of Aspell for Windows as it is said by GNU.. > LyX > does not install command line Aspell binaries but installs Aspell data > files and dictionaries in "Documents and Settings". Yes, but *where* exaclty? E.g. if I made an installation *only* for me, it is my own Directory in *Directory Settings*, right? Or is it the *root* directory of *Documents Settings*? > > Please go to Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs and uninstall anything > related to Aspell Yes, I did it four times. You cannot uninstall Aspell totally by this way. Therefore I deleted some remainigs by hand. I uninstalled the *whole* components of the LyX bundle as well. And I tested, if the files have really vanished before I started the next installation. > and then install LyX and the dictionaries again. I installed first the bundle for only one user, without making a cross for the dictiionary, because I want to install it *afterwards*. I got from GNU the package From GNU I got the package Aspell-de-0.50-2-3, which contains the dictionaries, that arede.multi, de_DE-only.rws, deutsch.aias, de_DE.multi, german.alias and some Swiss Packages in directory dict and de and de_phonet in directory data. These directories are installed in a directory called TmpInstall, and sureley I have to copy it. But where is the *correct* place in *Document Settings*? Since I am preparing al LyX-CD for czech pupils, I do not want to urge them, downloading a file from the net without knowing anything about the origin (As I told you, yesterday I got a *suspicous* version of the dictionary by a German server in Berlin*. And if you want to install an additional dictionary for another language, you must know these steps in any case. So, please: Where do I have to put the dicts *exacly* and which files? I do not think that all of them are necessary. There is no help in the package to figure out. I did not install aspell itself. As you said, this is not necessary. > You > don't need to install anything else. Hopefully not. But I do not htink so. The problem remains the same. And still it is top secret what lyx really does while invoking aspell. > > Note that an installation of Aspell for your own user account gets > priority over the system-wide version. Yes, I read your replies to the same problem several days ago. But I tried a lot of possibilities. With and without aspell. Nothing works. > So if you installed dictionaries > for all users but still have a private copy of Aspell with it's own > dictionaries, the dictionaries of the system-wide version will not be used. I installed it only for my own now. But the problem ist the same. Where does LyX search for the dicts? Regards Heiko > > Joost -- Heiko Schroeder Praha, Ceska Republica http://home.foni.net/~heikos http://www.od.shuttle.de/evb-1