Spellcheck

Wolfgang Engelmann engelmann at uni-tuebingen.de
Sat Nov 14 12:19:31 UTC 2020



Am 14.11.20 um 09:38 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann:
> I haven't found a more detailed description for spellchecking in the 
> help files of LyX.
> 
> In the User Guide 6.14 Spell Checking
> It says:
> With Linux one needs to install the packages for the desired language. 
> The number of these packages vary depending on the Linux distribution, 
> but in most cases these are aspell-xx, hunspell-xx, myspell-xx, etc., 
> where xx is the language code.
> 
> In my LyX Version 2.3.5.2
> (Thursday, June 25, 2020)
> Library directory: /usr/share/lyx/
> User directory: ~/.lyx/
> Qt Version (run-time): 5.14.2
> Qt Version (compile-time): 5.14.2
> (and I am using Debian Bullseye)
> 
> there is only enchant as the spellchecker engine listed.
> It is in ./.config/enchant
> but there is no hunspell, e.g.
> It is mentioned to get it from
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/lyxwininstaller/files/hunspell/
> #### > Where do I place it (and other spellcheckers)
> #### > And how do I get a personal spellchecker invoked?
> 
> Thanks for pointers
> Wolfgang

I found this
https://www.lyx.org/AdditionalSoftware
and it states that enchant calls other spellcheckers.

So my remaining question is
how do I get a personal spellchecker

Wolfgang


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