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

Per Olofsson pelle at debian.org
Wed Sep 6 19:15:37 UTC 2006


Georg Baum:
> 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.

Note that the libaspell support works well, since it uses language
codes (e.g. en_US, sv_SE) instead of language names (english,
swedish). I'd be all for dropping ispell support in the LyX Debian
package and just tell people to use aspell.

-- 
Pelle




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