Am 09.11.2011 um 12:01 schrieb Torquil Macdonald Sørensen: > On 09/11/11 07:56, Stephan Witt wrote: >>> However, it seems to me to have a deficiency, and I'm hoping it is just a >>> configuration issue: >>> >>> If my document contains e.g. the mathematical term "d-dimensional", the LyX >>> spellchecker will treat this as a single word and complain, instead of >>> considering it as a combination of two words to be checked independently. >>> In the latter case I would only be forced to add "d" to the list of words, >>> and all would be well. >>> >>> Is there a way to make this Enchant spellchecker understand that it should >>> only check each word separately when they are connected by a hyphen? >> >> >> When I'm using Hunspell as backend for LyX's spell-checker I don't have your >> problem. >> I don't know if it's the same with Enchant as a "relay"... but you may give >> it a try >> and configure Hunspell as your Enchant spell-checker engine. >> >> Stephan >> > > Thanks Stephan! > > I tried what you suggested, but it didn't seem to improve the situation. The > long store: > > I installed hunspell, but wasn't able to select it directly in the LyX > preferences for some reason, even after "Reconfiguring" and restarting. Also, > the hunspell field in the Paths-configuration inside the preferences was > always greyed out.
That's a consequence of the missing Hunspell support at compile time of LyX. I don't know what Linux-distribution you're using and how you got the LyX-package... Obviously the maintainer configured it for Enchant only. :( In case you're using you self-made LyX, you have to install the development package for Hunspell too. This is a prerequisite for building LyX with Hunspell support. > Hunspell works on the command line, though. Unfortunately, this is of no use. LyX is calling Enchant. > So I had to stay with enchant in LyX. According to the enchant documentation, > a file enchant.ordering can be placed in ~/.enchant/. I did this, and have > tried: > > *:aspell > > or > > *:hunspell > > (not at the same time, though). > > But in both cases I get the same problem with the hyphenated words. I wish > there was some way of asking enchant which spellchecker it is actually using, > but I cannot find this in its documentation (the man page). But then I > uninstalled aspell, and as far as I know, hunspell is then the only > spellchecker left on my system, so I guess enchant is obeying my > configuration file, or otherwise it wouldn't work at all. > > But as mentioned, using hunspell in this way did not improve the situation, > unfortunately. Did you need to edit some hunspell configuration file or > specify some special options somewhere? This I cannot answer. I didn't test the enchant route of spell-checking. But from what you are describing I'd guess enchant is doing it's own preprocessing... > > Also, it seems to complain about some very common things like "i.e.". It only > complains about the "i", so I'm not sure how to add the whole "i.e." to the > dictionary by using the LyX spellchecker dialogue. Try to get a LyX with "native" Hunspell support if possible. Is it possible? Stephan
