Re: Thesarus function (English only) not accessible?

2009-01-11 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Sunday 11 January 2009 11:29:04 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Stefano Franchi wrote:
> > I recently installled LyX 1.6.1 from sources (on a Kubuntu 8.10/KDE 4.2
> > beta machine) and I seem to have lost all access to the English
> > Thesaurus. It is no longer present in the drop-down Tools menu, nor in
> > the right-click pop-up list.  Is there some special package I need to
> > install either beofre or after compiling LyX to have it working?
>
> You need to have aiksaurus installed (aiksaurus and aiksaurus-devel).
>
> > There is a short thread on the list that refers to Thesaurus problems,
> > but it seems to address the issue of making it work in other languages
> > (Spanish, specifically).
>
> FWIW, LyX 2.0svn has support for multilingual thesauri. It can deal with
> OpenOffice thesauri, which exist in many languages.
>
> Jürgen

Thanks Jurgen,

It works perfectly now.

Stefano

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Re: Thesarus function (English only) not accessible?

2009-01-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Stefano Franchi wrote:
> I recently installled LyX 1.6.1 from sources (on a Kubuntu 8.10/KDE 4.2
> beta machine) and I seem to have lost all access to the English Thesaurus.
> It is no longer present in the drop-down Tools menu, nor in the right-click
> pop-up list.  Is there some special package I need to install either beofre
> or after compiling LyX to have it working?

You need to have aiksaurus installed (aiksaurus and aiksaurus-devel).

> There is a short thread on the list that refers to Thesaurus problems, but
> it seems to address the issue of making it work in other languages
> (Spanish, specifically).

FWIW, LyX 2.0svn has support for multilingual thesauri. It can deal with 
OpenOffice thesauri, which exist in many languages.

Jürgen