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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected
From:       Maximilian Wollner <maximilian.wollner () univie ! ac ! at>
Date:       2008-03-13 7:28:19
Message-ID: fral2j$61b$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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On 2008-03-12 22:00:15 +0100, "Dominik Böhm" 
<dominik@dbedv.de> said:

> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Andre Poenitz
> <andre.poenitz@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> 
> wrote:
>> So it does not know about "Konfiguration*einstellung" (neither do I,
>> btw, it's like talking about "weisser Schimmel"...)
> 
> Yes I know, the example was very badly chosen, but that doesn't change
> the fact that (my) aspell has some problems here.
> 
>> but it recognizes
>> "Rechnemaschine" as error and even suggests the correct "Rechenmaschine"
>> as replacement.
>> 
>> From what I can tell it works just fine. Mayhbe your aspell
>> implmentation is broken or LyX is mis-configured.
> 
> Maybe you're right, I downloaded the proposed aspell6 version from the
> LyX servers and run it on Windows. I just saw, that aspell is from
> 2003, though the latest version from the aspell site is dated december
> 2006. I doubt that LyX is misconfigured, as I tried every possible
> setting.
> 
>>> I hope some of you cannot only understand my problems but will also be able
>>> to provide a working solution.
>> 
>> Maybe sticking to MS Word is an option.
> 
> Even though Word is wrt spell checking and grammar checking superior
> to LyX, it's absolutely no option. I want my thesis to look pretty
> (with as little effort as possible), so LaTeX in general and LyX in
> particular is by far the best option.
> 
> Dominik

I've tried to configure Cocoaspell or Aspell endless times and never 
managed to succeed. Now I simply print everything out and check it 
manually and on paper – and there is no electronic spellchecker that is 
as good (nor will there ever be such a program) as yourself (or another 
man or woman).


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