Spellchecking dictionaries in LyX 2.4 installer

Pavel Sanda sanda at lyx.org
Fri Oct 30 19:12:39 UTC 2020


On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 07:48:39PM +0100, Yu Jin wrote:
> > > Actually I remember my first attempts to work with LyX, I asked google
> > and
> > > found it pretty quickly.
> > >
> > > Btw. by default following dicts are included in the installer on Windows:
> > > de_DE
> > > en_GB
> > > en_US
> > > es_ES
> > > es_MX
> > > fr_FR
> >
> > Do you have an estimate what would be the difference in installer size if
> > we included all dicts?
> >
> 
> you mean all from https://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyxsvn/dictionaries/trunk

That's what I meant.

> There is 300+ MB thesaurus and 240 MB dictionaries unpacked.

That's too much. Sorry for my naive questions below, but I have no idea how the installer looks like now:
Is user allowed to select the dictionaries? Do we download them in that case from our repo at lyx.org?

Pavel


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