Am Thu, 04 Jun 2015 14:42:36 -0400 schrieb Mike Coan <mikecoan@woodlawnfoundation.org>:

Greetings,

I have been using TexWorks and the TexLive collectoion on opensuse for a number of years. Spellcheck was always available in TexWorks.

At work I use opensuse 13.2 and at home I use Tumbleweed. The version of TexWorks is 0.4.6 in both cases. opensuse 13.2 uses Texlive2013, Tumbleweed uses Texlive2014.

In opensue 13.1 I could enable spellchecking in Texworks by going to Edit --> Preferences --> General --> Spell-check language and specify en-US. that option is not available.

Looking at the manual for TeXworks it specifically says how to implement spell checking

Got to Help --> Seetings and Resources --> Resources and note the Resources directory. In my case it is

/home/mikecoan/.TeXworks

Create a subdirectoy called dictionaries and copy the dictionary files from /usr/share/myspell to the new subdirectory. I ahve done that and still no change.

I have installed TeXworks and Texlive from the standard oss repositories in both cases. No special repositories.

If anyone has spell check working in TeXworks I would appreciate knowing what you did.

Note that I have TeXworks configured to use use Plain TeX and pdftex, but that shouldn't make a difference.

Mike

Hello Mike, TeXworks Version 0.4.6 (openSUSE) [r.c29723a, 03.04.15 20:05] looks at /usr/share/myspell/dicts by default, see below. On my openSuSE 13.2 the following link should be added to get the spell checker working. sudo ln -s /usr/share/hunspell /usr/share/myspell/dicts Hope that helps Peter TeXworks manual 4.3 Spell-checking You can turn on automatic spell-checking of your source document from Edit →Spelling→<language>. It is also possible to ask TEXworks to enable spell-checking by default by setting a dictionary in Edit→Preferences…→Editor→Spell-check language. During typing, every word the spell-checker considers wrong is underlined by a red wavy line. A right-click on the word opens a contextual menu in which there are some replacement suggestions. Click on the desired word to make the replacement. Before using the spell-checker, you need to install dictionaries in the right folder of TEXworks: <resources>\dictionaries. The <resources> folder can be accessed easily via Help→Settings and Resources…. On Linux, the dictionaries are usually taken from the folder /usr/share/myspell/dicts—the default path for myspell ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ dictionaries. Note, though, that the maintainer of your TEXworks package may have changed this to reflect the file system layout of your Linux distribution. You can override this default by setting the TW_DICPATH environment variable before running TEXworks. One can use the available dictionaries for OpenOffice.org and other free software;2 if you have Mozilla Thunderbird with spell-checking, you can copy its .aff and .dic files as well, for example. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org