It would appear that on Jun 6, Stephan Witt did say:
> Am 06.06.2011 um 18:23 schrieb Joe(theWordy)Philbrook:
> > OK, whether or not my keyboard shortcut issues are resolved (or limited to
> > the version that may have been modified by the PCLinuxOS maintainers) I'm
> > going to need to understand this...
> >
> > You see I have this shell script that swaps out aspell's dictionary files
> > «.aspell.en.prepl & .aspell.en.pws» For special copies of them from my
> > personal data partition just before opening the LyX files of a sci-fi story
> > I've been working on... This serves two purposes:
> >
> > 1) It makes the same "storyline" fictional words available to aspell
> > during the editing of this sci-fi story no matter which Linux I've
> > booted.
> >
> > 2) Because that script sits there in it's open terminal window waiting for
> > me to tell it I'm done so that it can swap the dictionary files back,
> > this also prevents aspell from accidentally accepting one of these
> > fictional words when I'm writing something else...
> >
> > So If I understand what's happening, LyX 2.0.0's implementation of aspell
> > looks in aspell's own dictionary files, but only adds words to it's own
> > special ~/.lyx/pwl_english.dict file where they will not be available for
> > aspell to use outside of the LyX environment???
> >
> > ¿¿¿Is there any reason why I can't simply modify the above script to also
> > swap out copies of that file so that LyX would only find fictional words it
> > added to the pwl_english.dict file during the editing of this sci-fi story
> > would be while spell checking this sci-fi story???
>
> Sorry, I don't understand.
>
> You've asked where LyX stores the personal word list... and I gave you the
> answer.
> Where did you mention your script before? All of your doing sounds very
> "creative"
> or at least not so common.
That's true enough. But until you told me that "personal word list" was
located in ~/.lyx/ I wasn't even sure that aspell itself wasn't doing this.
And since by the time my script starts LyX, the only aspell dictionary
files involved are in their traditional location, I believed that mentioning
the script at that point in the discussion might confuse the issue. And yes I
thought it was a creative solution that's based on the fact that my ~/com
directory (like my ~/mail directory) is actually a symlink to a directory on a
personal data drive that gets mounted in the same place regardless of which of
4 currently installed Linux distros I boot. Since it sounded like my script
may have piqued your curiosity I attached a copy of it. it's file name is stg
(which is also the working title of the story involved...)
> You may ask why LyX maintains a private personal word list. It's because
> there is
> no interface for aspell to remove a word from its personal dictionary. And
> the author
> of it refused to consider to add one. For the average user it's not
> acceptable to
> search and edit the personal dictionary file, IMHO.
Agreed. I still vaguely remember the angst I felt way back the first
time I accidentally added a badly misspelled word to aspell's dictionary.
> To make your workflow possible LyX's personal word list management needs to
> be changed.
> The plan instead is to make the personal word lists document based, so one
> can add
> words locally or globally. But this is not done already.
Ah, so then if I modified my script to also swap out the pwl_english.dict
file I'd be asking for it. At least I presume that either the format
of the pwl_english.dict file will get more complex or there will be perhaps
a proliferation of PWL files each named after the document involved...
Fortunately once the PWLs become document based, I won't need to. Is that
plan likely to be implemented any time soon? I mean I'd hate to bother
modifying my script only to find that the PWL file(s) became more complex
the very next week...
May I suggest that when the choice to add words to the local document's
word list or the multi-document global one is implemented, it would be a
good thing to also add an "export to aspell" choice that also provides an
“are you sure?” warning that advises the average user that no provision is
made to automatically remove words from aspell's native word list.
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| <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook
| ^ J(tWdy)P
| ~\___/~ <<jtw...@ttlc.net>>
#! /bin/bash
echo
echo " you are about to spin of a lyx session and then use the current"
echo "konsole to open mc in the lyxSTUFF directory..."
echo
echo "Note: if you are not in a konsole or if you are already running"
echo " mc in it (hint use ^O to verify) then you should abort..."
echo
echo " press enter to continue"
echo " -or-"
echo " use ^c to abort"
echo
read dummy
# Note since running stg, will now enable storyline copy of spellcheck
# wordlists...
# test if can filter copy by greping for BranchCritter
grepout=`grep BranchCritter /home/jtwdyp/.aspell.en.pws`
if [ "$grepout" = "" ]
then
cp /home/jtwdyp/.aspell.en.prepl
/home/jtwdyp/com/lyxSTUFF/.STGaspell/a/.aspell.en.prepl
cp /home/jtwdyp/.aspell.en.pws
/home/jtwdyp/com/lyxSTUFF/.STGaspell/a/.aspell.en.pws
cp /home/jtwdyp/com/lyxSTUFF/.STGaspell/s/.aspell.en.prepl
/home/jtwdyp/.aspell.en.prepl
cp /home/jtwdyp/com/lyxSTUFF/.STGaspell/s/.aspell.en.pws
/home/jtwdyp/.aspell.en.pws
echo "
storyline spellfiles enabled
"
else
echo "ERROR while preparing to back-up non-storyline spellfiles:"
echo " It was detected that the file ~/.aspell.en.pws"
echo " already contains BranchCritter"
echo ""
echo " Script will abort..."
echo ""
echo " It is recomended that you manualy fix spellfiles"
echo ""
echo " See /home/jtwdyp/com/lyxSTUFF/.STGaspell/Readme.txt "
echo ""
echo "abort ABORT abor"
echo ""
exit
fi
lyx ~/com/lyxSTUFF/STG*.lyx ~/com/lyxSTUFF/rESTRICT_STGouttakes.lyx &
mc ~/com/lyxSTUFF/
# Since mc has exited... preserve storyline spellcheck files
cp /home/jtwdyp/.aspell.en.prepl
/home/jtwdyp/com/lyxSTUFF/.STGaspell/s/.aspell.en.prepl
cp /home/jtwdyp/.aspell.en.pws
/home/jtwdyp/com/lyxSTUFF/.STGaspell/s/.aspell.en.pws
# restore non-storyline spellcheck files
cp /home/jtwdyp/com/lyxSTUFF/.STGaspell/a/.aspell.en.prepl
/home/jtwdyp/.aspell.en.prepl
cp /home/jtwdyp/com/lyxSTUFF/.STGaspell/a/.aspell.en.pws
/home/jtwdyp/.aspell.en.pws
echo ""
echo " non-storyline spellcheck files restored"
echo ""
