[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#265030: Ispell and pspell still supported in 1.4?

[Georg Baum]

Am Mittwoch, 6. September 2006 18:28 schrieb Sven Hoexter:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 03:45:49PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:20:26PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote:
> > 
> > > The Debian package has a bugreport about ispell problems. It seems to 
try
> > > to select the wrong dictionary for the enviroment.
> > > 
> > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265030
> > 
> > I don't think this is a LyX bug. At least if you don't pretend that
> > LyX should also take care of the external programs' configuration...
> > 
> > I mean, if an english dictionary is asked for and an english
> > dictionary doesn't exist, it is not a LyX fault. If an american
> > dictionary exists and you are fine with using it as if it was
> > an english dictionary, then it is not LyX responsibility to
> > set up the symlinks necessary to use it in that way...
> I've not yet investigated this issue to say who to blame for this 
problem.
> At least I can reproduce it.
> Anyway I did not want to say anything about this bug. I just wanted to 
note
> that someone uses ispell and seems to care about problems with it. That's 
all.

I agree with Enrico that in this particular case LyX is not to blame, but 
the problem is more general: LyX simply asks for a dictionary that is 
named after the document language and does not check at all whether that 
is a vlid dictionary name. That works well in many cases, but not in all, 
and I think we need a translation list LyX language name -> dictionary 
name for all supported languages and dictionaries.


Georg