Spellchecking dictionaries in LyX 2.4 installer
Yuriy Skalko
yuriy.skalko at gmail.com
Sun Nov 22 13:15:00 UTC 2020
> I might be wrong but I thought that windows installer used to have list of
> languages that you could select to install.
> If that's the case wouldn't be trivial to just download dicts from our site in
> case use ask for specific lanugage?
> Or to have just single checkbox like 'Install comprehensive language pack'
> which would pull all 300 mb in archive we prepare on ftp.
>
> Pavel
Now installer automatically selects OS language for installer UI. But
user should scroll through big language list and manually select
dictionary for the same language. If user skips this (assuming that if
installer is in right language then LyX will have full support for this
language too) and later finds that spellchecking is not working in
installed LyX, then only manual downloading of dict and putting it into
right directory is available. I assume that many users will just miss
spellchecking feature in this case.
Also current installer requires internet connection even for very common
languages (besides EN,FR,ES,DE that are builtin).
Yuriy
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