How to edit
The Lyx Wiki for the Mac suggests the following: If at this point you are unable to save new words to the personal dictionary you will need to edit the file at /usr/local/etc/ aspell.conf. Remove the line "home-dir $HOME/Library/Preferences/ aspell" (line 38 including blanks), or disable it by adding a "#" sign at the begining. How exactly can I do this? I was until now not able to save new words to the personal dictionary. Thanks for your help! -Joachim
Re: (coco) Aspell and Lyx - how to add a Personal Dictionary file?
Unfortunately, that didn't do the trick. I typed in the path (from User/ on). Maybe that was wrong? I assume, I don't have to actually create any file? Thanks again for the fast response! On Jan 15, 2009, at 4:03 PM, "Bennett Helm" wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Joachim K. Rennstich <> wrote: I am successfully working with Lyx 1.6.1 and my installation of coco-Aspell on my Mac with OS X 10.5.6. I have not been able to get the spelling checker to ever learn a word. Under "Preferences > Language Settings > Spellchecker" I have an option to add a Personal Dictionary "Other than the default" - since this default doesn't seem to work, how can manually add personal dictionary? What kind of file do I need to create that will show in the dialog box as a selectable file? A simple .txt file (e.g., personaldict.txt) won't work. Any suggestions would be most welcome - thanks in advance! cocoAspell seems to want user dictionaries to be placed in ~/Library/Spelling. It should work, therefore, if you enter ~/Library/Spelling/mydictionary (or whatever filename you want) into LyX > Preferences > Language Settings > Spelling > Personal Dictionary. Bennett
(coco) Aspell and Lyx - how to add a Personal Dictionary file?
I am successfully working with Lyx 1.6.1 and my installation of coco- Aspell on my Mac with OS X 10.5.6. I have not been able to get the spelling checker to ever learn a word. Under "Preferences > Language Settings > Spellchecker" I have an option to add a Personal Dictionary "Other than the default" - since this default doesn't seem to work, how can manually add personal dictionary? What kind of file do I need to create that will show in the dialog box as a selectable file? A simple .txt file (e.g., personaldict.txt) won't work. Any suggestions would be most welcome - thanks in advance! -Joachim
Import RTF > Lyx 1.6 error
I am trying to import a RTF document into Lyx 1.6 (Mac OS X 10.5.5, Intel) through the "File > Import > Rich Text Format..." command but get the following error: An error occurred whilst running rtf2latex2e 'whateverfile.rtf' I have been looking up rtf2latex2e and discovered that apparently it is not supported on Mac OS X unless you compile the UNIX version. My question is: how can I make the command work? What do I need to install in addition and how can I do that? Thanks - Joachim
Lyx and BibDesk connection
I am new user to Lyx and I have been working on a Mac (10.5) with TeXShop and BibDesk successfully so far. I just updated to the latest Mac install for TeX and gave Lyx another try in v1.6 and want to do the switch. Here's my problem - whenever I try to send something from BibDesk to Lyx, I get the following error msg: Unable to open the LyX pipe at "/Users/jrennstich/Library/ Application Support/LyX-1.6/.lyxpipe.in" for writing. You should quit LyX and possibly remove the pipe manually if this error persists. The underlying system error code was 6 (Device not configured). I saw the post here http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Environment about changing the .MacOSX/environment.plist but I am simply not able to find the relevant files: neither the .lyxpipe.in, nor ~/.MacOSX/ environment.plist. Any help how to link Lyx and BibDesk successfully and help Lyx and BibDesk identify my .bib libraries would be greatly appreciated. I couldn't find that information in a search on here, my apologies, if this has been covered before :-( Needless to say, since I cannot find the lyxpipe.in nor the environment.plist, I am one of those sad Mac- users, who need a GUI and some guidance if that won't let me do the stuff I need to do... ;-) Thx, -Joachim
