Not able to spellcheck in RC4 under Linux
Christopher Menzel
chris.menzel at gmail.com
Thu Apr 18 14:59:37 UTC 2024
> Maybe you need enchant (default on debian), it uses different spell checkers.
>
Thank you for the suggestion. I finally got the bright idea of looking through the configure script for relevant flags and found “--with-included-hunspell”. Apparently, by default the script looks for an installed version of hunspell instead of using the version that’s included in the distribution and, for some reason, it wasn’t able to find my installed version of hunspell. But configuring with the above flag did the trick. My document is now nicely littered with wavy red underlines (as desired!). :-)
-chris
> Am 17.04.24 um 5:41 PM schrieb Christopher Menzel:
>> I have compiled LyX 2.4-RC4 under Kali Linux and it works great but I am
>> unable to spellcheck. Tools → Spellchecker is greyed out and LyX sees
>> no spellchecker engine under Preferences → Spellchecker. Hunspell and
>> the English dictionary are of course installed. I found an old thread
>> saying that Hunspell support had to be explicitly included at configure
>> time, but I believe Hunspell is now built in. At any rate, the old
>> “—use-hunspell” option is not recognized. Spellchecking via Hunspell
>> works fine in the MacOS version of RC4.
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