[OS X TeX] Cocoaspell does not know common words

[cfrees at imapmail.org]

On Fri 27th Aug, 2010 at 17:34, Herbert Schulz seems to have written:

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> On Aug 27, 2010, at 9:15 AM, <cfrees at imapmail.org> <cfrees at imapmail.org> wrote:
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>> On Fri 27th Aug, 2010 at 06:52, Herbert Schulz seems to have written:
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>>> On Aug 26, 2010, at 10:44 PM, Nathan Paxton wrote:
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>>>> 	I do have a UNIX version of aspell installed in /usr/local/bin. Should this make a difference?
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>>>> Best,
>>>> -Nathan A. Paxton
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>>> Howdy,
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>>> I believe that's one supplied by Apple and not used by CocoAspell.
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>> Has Apple altered its policy for Leopard/Snow Leopard? In previous OS
>> versions, Apple didn't install under /usr/local at all that I'm aware
>> of. Neither did Apple supply aspell.
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>> I've got /usr/local/bin/aspell but that's something I installed myself.
>> It doesn't cause issues for me with CocoAspell. On the other hand, I
>> seem to have reverted from 0.60.6 to 0.60.4 although I cannot now
>> remember why I did this.
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>> Best,
>> cfr
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> Howdy,
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> I don't know if CocoAspell or Apple installed it or not but I've got /usr/local/bin/aspell that is version 0.6.5:

Of the two, CocoAspell is much more likely. I don't have Leopard or
Snow Leopard but I'm pretty sure Apple don't install under /usr/local/
in any version of OS X. (Apple sometimes make some... odd... decisions
but this would be so obviously misguided that I'd hope it would not
even be considered.)

Best,
cfr

> $ which aspell
> /usr/local/bin/aspell
> $ aspell --version
> @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.5)
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> with Snow Leopard.
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> Good Luck,
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> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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