

It seems possible to take two or more dictionaries and merge them into one new dictionary (possibly, ".aff" files have to be merged, too). Right click on a word that should be remove and select "Remove from personal dictionary".īy replacing an installed Hunspell dictionary by a dictionary created by yourself If you want to removing a words from it, you can do this also in LyX. Search for this file and you can also edit this file with a text editor and add more words manually (just one word per line). If the document language is set to "English", the words will be added to the file pwl_english.dict in the home directory of LyX. While spell checking ( F7) there is the "Add" button to add unknown words to the personal word list. There are two ways to increase a spell check dictionary.īy adding words to a personal word list in the spellchecker in LyX (or directly to the file of the personal word list Since warnings (or errors) about the spellchecker are not shown as pop-up messages in the LyX frontend it can help to run LyX from the command prompt/shell with lyx -dbg files. (This information can be found here.)įor installing a Hunspell dictionary for a language and using it in LyX, one can follow these instructions (I think of particular importance is to set the path "Tools > Preferences > Paths > Hunspell" correctly.

For example, "en-US.aff" should become "en_US.aff" or just "en.aff". aff files do not have a pattern like xx_XX.xxx or xx.xxx, one needs to rename them.
#Lyx spell check zip file#
aff and README- files from the zip file and store them in the directory used by the operating system for hunspell dictionaries.
#Lyx spell check download#
One can download a dictionary, extract the. There is the often cited repository of OpenOffice (and others may exist). Often one can choose among different dictionaries in "hunspell" for the same language. Of course, this does not say using "hunspell" is the best choice in every case. (And "ispell" is even a predecessor of "aspell".) More and more programs are switching to "hunspell". For Windows, the latest binaries of aspell are dated from Dec 2002, see here or GNU Aspell on Wikipedia. The support for "aspell" in LyX has been dropped.
