Spellcheck

[Baris Erkus]

On 15-Nov-20 10:57 PM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
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> Am 14.11.20 um 23:47 schrieb Charlie:
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>>     Wolfgang Engelmann informed me regarding: Re: Spellcheck on
>>     Sat, 14 Nov 2020 14:56:43 +0100
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>>> 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:
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>>     Wolgang,
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>>     Debian Bullseye
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>>     ~/.config/enchant might be what you want.
>>
>> Charlie
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>>     East Gippsland Wildlife Rehabilitators Inc..
>>                             http://www.egwildlife.com.au/
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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
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> wolfgang at Fuji:~/.config$ cat en_GB.dic
> cat: en_GB.dic: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
>
> ??
>
> Wolfgang

Am I missing smtg here? You need to be in the "/.config/enchant/" 
folder, not "/.config" folder.

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