Problem with spell checker

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Hello everyone
I'm having a problem with the spell-checker. I'm running a computer with
CentOS 6.5 installed, and I installed Lyx 2.1. However when I go in the
settings, the spell-checker option is greyed out and cannot be activated.
The strange thing is that not only a spell-checker was already installed
(hunspell from LibreOffice), but I also attempted reinstalling after
updating hunspell to the latest version with all the available dictionaries
installed.
Anyone else had this problem?
Many thanks

Hi Fabio,
LyX needs to be compiled with spellchecker support enabled (I assume
this requires the devel libraries to link against). If you are
compiling with CMake, try
-DLYX_HUNSPELL=ON -DLYX_ENCHANT=ON
for both Hunspell and Enchant.

Do you mean that cmake does not enable them by default? This is bad,
IMO. The configure script configure whatever spellcheckers it finds, and
it is possible to disable them individually.

JMarc

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes

Hello everyone
I'm having a problem with the spell-checker. I'm running a computer with
CentOS 6.5 installed, and I installed Lyx 2.1. However when I go in the
settings, the spell-checker option is greyed out and cannot be activated.
The strange thing is that not only a spell-checker was already installed
(hunspell from LibreOffice), but I also attempted reinstalling after
updating hunspell to the latest version with all the available dictionaries
installed.
Anyone else had this problem?
Many thanks

Hi Fabio,
LyX needs to be compiled with spellchecker support enabled (I assume
this requires the devel libraries to link against). If you are
compiling with CMake, try
-DLYX_HUNSPELL=ON -DLYX_ENCHANT=ON
for both Hunspell and Enchant.

Do you mean that cmake does not enable them by default? This is bad, IMO.
The configure script configure whatever spellcheckers it finds, and it is
possible to disable them individually.

I did mean that but I was mistaken (I saw the - LYX_HUNSPELL = OFF
reported at the end and thought that meant I wasn't compiling with
Hunspell, but now I see that it just means that I didn't explicitly
ask for it to compile with Hunspell).

Scott

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Post by Scott Kostyshak

Do you mean that cmake does not enable them by default? This is bad, IMO.
The configure script configure whatever spellcheckers it finds, and it is
possible to disable them individually.

I did mean that but I was mistaken (I saw the - LYX_HUNSPELL = OFF
reported at the end and thought that meant I wasn't compiling with
Hunspell, but now I see that it just means that I didn't explicitly
ask for it to compile with Hunspell).

Very good.

JMarc