Spellcheck

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am 14.11.20 um 23:47 schrieb Charlie:
> 
> 	Wolfgang Engelmann informed me regarding: Re: Spellcheck on
> 	Sat, 14 Nov 2020 14:56:43 +0100
> 
>> Am 14.11.20 um 14:26 schrieb Baris Erkus:
>>> On 14-Nov-20 3:19 PM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> You can tell LyX to record the words that will be recognized as
>>> correct by "Add to personal dictionary" . These are saved as text
>>> files in the personal folder with a name e.g. pwl_english.dict.
>> Thanks, Baris.
>> I see, by clicking ADD I get the personal spellchecker and can save
>> to it. But how do I find this one?
>> Mind you, I am under Linux (Debian)
>> Wolfgang
>>>
>>> If you want to use a new dictionary with .dic and .aff files,
>>> rather than the default dictionary files, you should place those
>>> files to \resources\dicts\ folder of LyX.
>>>    
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> 
> 
> 	Replied thus:
> 
> 	Wolgang,
> 
> 	Debian Bullseye
> 
> 	~/.config/enchant might be what you want.
> 
> Charlie
> 
> 
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> 
enchant:
de_DE.dic  de_DE.exc  de.dic  de.exc  en_GB.dic  en_GB.exc  en_US.dic 
en_US.exc


wolfgang at Fuji:~/.config$ cat en_GB.dic
cat: en_GB.dic: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

??

Wolfgang