Spellchecking dictionaries in LyX 2.4 installer

Richard Kimberly Heck rikiheck at lyx.org
Fri Oct 30 16:08:51 UTC 2020


On 10/30/20 5:17 AM, Yuriy Skalko wrote:
> Hello LyX developers,
>
> I've tried testing installer of LyX 2.4 on Windows 10 and it works 
> without any problems, thanks for preparing it.
>
> After running the installer, I have proposition to include 
> spellchecking dictionaries for Russian and Portuguese by default into 
> this installer. These two are among the ten most popular languages, 
> even more popular than German that has dictionary installed by default 
> (sorry, I know nothing about spellchecking Chinese and Hindi).
>
> As I've checked, both dictionaries take less than 1MB disk space when 
> compressed.
>
> Or maybe add more languages (installer for LyX 2.4 now is 15 MB less 
> than installer for LyX 2.3)?
>
> What are your thoughts about this?

I think this is a reasaonable idea. What do we include by default now?

Riki




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