On Tuesday 07 December 2010 01:33:03 Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 07.12.2010 um 00:18 schrieb Richard Heck: > > On 12/06/2010 06:06 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > >> On Monday 06 December 2010 17:18:33 Paul Rubin wrote: > >>> Steve Litt<slitt<at> troubleshooters.com> writes: > >>>> 2) I set it, removed it, and then it came back. Ugh! > >>> > >>> There's a ticket about #2 in the bug tracker (#6688 -- I filed it), and > >>> I just saw a status update on it recently. Apparently the personal > >>> dictionary entry is going away in LyX 2.0, so the bug won't need to be > >>> fixed. > >> > >> With what will they replace the personal dictionary in LyX 2.0? > > > > I believe the intention is to manage the personal dictionary internally, > > though I am not the one doing this work. It is your namesake, Stephan > > Witt ;-). The main motivation is that the various backends we use aren't > > at all consistent in how they handle adding and removing words, and some > > of them don't even support removal. There's also the issue with > > persistence, which you seem to have experienced. So doing it all inside > > LyX, as far as the personal dictionary goes, makes sense. > > That's a good summary of my work, thanks. :-) > > The current state for LyX 2.0 beta2 is a working internal personal > dictionary at a fixed location inside your LyX users directory. Now > adding and removing of words works for me with aspell and hunspell with > the internal personal dictionary on Linux and Mac OS X (Windows I couldn't > test). > > Next I want to make the location of the personal dictionary more flexible. > > For LyX 1.6.9 I'll have a look at #6688 - I didn't see it earlier. > > As I understand it the path to personal dictionary is used in 1.6.x for > ispell (and external aspell?) only. And of course one should be able to > clear the input field and save that. > > Stephan
Hi Stephan, Thanks! Am I reading you correctly that the LyX internal dictionary is just a file? If so, is it a file I can add to and subtract from with a text editor or a perl script? You mention you want to make the personal dictionary location more flexible. Sounds good to me. Let me ask you something -- besides being able to set it in Tools->Configure, would it be possible for you to add it on a per-document basis? It might be as simple as adding a special comment to the document: # LYX_PERSONAL_DICTIONARY=/home/slitt/books/thrive/thrive.pws and then being able to edit it from a Docuemnt->Settings, and recognize it when running spellcheck. The document's personal dictionary, if it exists, would override the Tools->Configure based personal dictionary. The benefit of this is every document has words that belong to it, but these words would be wrong in another document. Names of characters in a fiction book come to mind instantly, but there could also be special acronyms for a special technology, etc. Does that sound doable? Tahnks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
