Could it be that the spellchecking possibility in LyX with Aspell or
CocoAspell is a big piss take, at least on Mac-OSX?
I have worked till today without spellchecker in LyX, but I should install
one for my convenience.
Now I worked about 8 hours to install and configure (Coco)Aspell for LyX
without acceptable result (and fear to have another 2, 3 hours to get rid
of it).
First I installed CocoAspell, because in the LyX-wiki page vor Mac
http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac?from=LyX.LyXOnMac#toc4
it is said:
"The easiest spellchecker to install is cocoAspell. CocoAspell provides an
installation of aspell and a preferences pane for selecting and setting up
dictionaries."
I did it. But LyX could not find it. LyX searched for:
/opt/local/share/aspell/ngerman
which does not exist. (I want the spellchecker for German)
I installed Aspell with MacPorts. Same result. Only after putting in the
path to one of the files de-common.dws or de-DE-only.dws in
LyX-preferences | language | spellschecker it "works". But in the way to
suggest for each (btw correct) word a sample of words which have nothing
to do with the one proofed.
=> Has anyone installed Aspell or CocoAspell under Mac-OSX and has got
them working with LyX in a reasonable manner?
Would you please describe how you installed and configured it?
joachim
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