The German spell checker does not work in lyx-2.0.2. I use app-text/hunspell-1.3.2-r3 with the dictionaries app-dicts/myspell-de-20080915-r1 and app-dicts/myspell-en-20081002. This works for LibreOffice and firefox. In lyx I choose hungspell as spell checker. The path to the dictionaries is /usr/share/lyx/dicts which links to /usr/share/myspell. The English spell checker works in lyx. Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.10.44 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.13-r4, 3.1.10-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.1.10-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q8200_@_2.33GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:15:02 +0000 ccache version 3.1.6 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3, 3.1.4-r3 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.6 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.6-r4 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.8.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r4 Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE PUEL dlj-1.1 AdobeFlash-10.1 skype-eula" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib/latex2html /usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/html /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync1.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 amr berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cupsddk cxx dbus device-mapper dri dts dvd dvdr dvi emboss encode exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gdu gif gimp glitz gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk hddtemp hpijs hunspell iconv ipv6 java jpeg latex lcms libnotify lm_sensors lyx mad midi mmx mng modules mono mp3 mp4 mpeg mtp mudflap multilib nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia odbc ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf pmu png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support readline scanner sdl session spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg symlink sysfs tcpd theora tiff truetype udev unicode usb vorbis wmf x264 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias auth_digest" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= app-office/lyx-2.0.2 was built with the following: USE="X cups hunspell latex (multilib) nls svg -aspell -debug -dia -docbook -dot -enchant -gnumeric -html -luatex -monolithic-build -rcs -rtf -subversion -xetex" LINGUAS="de en -ar -ca -cs -da -el -es -eu -fi -fr -gl -he -hu -ia -id -it -ja -nb -nn -pl -pt -ro -ru -sk -sr -sv -tr -uk -zh_CN -zh_TW" app-text/hunspell-1.3.2-r3 was built with the following: USE="(multilib) ncurses nls readline -static-libs" LINGUAS="de en -af -bg -ca -cs -cy -da -el -eo -es -et -fo -fr -ga -gl -he -hr -hu -ia -id -it -ku -lt -lv -mk -ms -nb -nl -nn -pl -pt -ro -ru -sk -sl -sv -sw -tn -uk -zu" app-dicts/myspell-de-20080915-r1 was built with the following: USE="(multilib)" app-dicts/myspell-en-20081002 was built with the following: USE="(multilib)" ------------------------------------------------------------------ ls /usr/share/myspell de_AT_frami.aff de_DE_frami.aff en_AU.aff en_GB.aff en_NZ.aff en_ZA.aff hyph_en_GB.dic th_de_DE_v2.idx de_AT_frami.dic de_DE_frami.dic en_AU.dic en_GB.dic en_NZ.dic en_ZA.dic th_de_CH_v2.dat th_en_US_v2.dat de_CH_frami.aff dictionary.lst.de en_CA.aff en_GB-oed.aff en_US.aff hyph_de_CH.dic th_de_CH_v2.idx th_en_US_v2.idx de_CH_frami.dic dictionary.lst.en en_CA.dic en_GB-oed.dic en_US.dic hyph_de_DE.dic th_de_DE_v2.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------- cat /usr/share/myspell/dictionary.lst.de # Autogenerated by app-dicts/myspell-de-20080915 DICT de DE de_DE_frami DICT de AT de_AT_frami DICT de CH de_CH_frami HYPH de DE hyph_de_DE HYPH de CH hyph_de_CH THES de DE th_de_DE_v2 THES de CH th_de_CH_v2 ------------------------------------------------------------.. LaTeX source generated by lyx: %% LyX 2.0.2 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/. %% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing. \documentclass[ngerman]{article} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage{color} \usepackage{url} \usepackage{graphicx} \makeatletter
i see. the problem is that lyx suppose de_DE filename and de_DE_frami is installed intead. now the question is whether it is bug that lyx doesn't know about _frami extension or that myspell-de should make link or install under the name de_DE?
I did in /usr/share/myspell: ln -s de_DE_frami.dic de_DE.dic ln -s de_DE_frami.aff de_DE.aff Now the spell checker works in German too. For me the bug is resolved. Thank you!
for the record, the following dictionaries will have troubles: en_GB-oed.dic de_??_frami.dic de_??_1901.dic hu_HU_u8.dic ia.dic la.dic ru_RU_ie.dic ru_RU_yo.dic attaching patch for german frami dictionaries; its not general solution. either parsing of dictionary.lst.LANG needs to be done or myspell-dictionaries must create soft-links in the form of: xx_YY.dic/aff from user point of view softlinks for .dic/aff created in ~/.lyx/dicts/ will help as well.
Created attachment 302695 [details, diff] de-frami.patch
