Re: Spell Check on a Mac
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- Subject: [mg101674] Re: Spell Check on a Mac
- From: ragfield <ragfield at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:34:25 -0400 (EDT)
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On Jul 12, 5:52 am, Thomas Dowling <thomasgdowl... at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am running Mathematica v 7.0.0 on a Mac G4 (non-intel, OSX v 10.5.7), and > my problem is that I cannot get Spell Check to work. > > Specifically, from the SpellChecker dialog box, I get the message > > 'Reason for stopping: The spelling Dictionaries for %S could not be' > > I have checked that the relevant file it there (I am presuming this is > MathematicaWords.clm) > > (/Users/powerbook/Library/Mathematica/SystemFiles > /SpellingDictionaries/English/MathematicaWords.clm) > > and, using OptionsInspector, that the SpellingDictionaryPath is apparently > OK. > > Although it is probably not relevant, the DictionaryLookup command works > perfectly. > > Finally, I have now installed Mathematica 7.0.0 on two Macs: the above G4 > and a G5, and > SpellCheck works on neither (exactly the same problem on both machines). > > (I can, however, SpellCheck with Publicon, and there was no problems with > Mathematica 5.2. I > am not sure about v 6.0, but I don't rememeber any problem). > > I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem, and if others have > succeeded in using SpelllCheck on > a Mac with version 7.0.0 or 7.0.1? > > If anyone has any idea what I am doing wrong, or what the problem is, I > would appreciate the advice. Is Mathematica installed in a folder whose name contains any non-Latin characters? What about your home directory? Does it still happen if you start Mathematica with clean preferences (temporarily move ~/ Library/Mathematica/FrontEnd/init.m to a different location)? Changes were made to parts of the spell checker in 7.0, but I've never heard of a problem like this before. -Rob