[OS X TeX] TeXShop, Cocoaspell, and MacOS 10.13.2

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Jan 4, 2018, at 4:41 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I’m also running TeXShop 3.95 and MacTeX-2017 under macOS 10.13.2. 
> 
> After your steps a) and b), when I go to the TeXShop Preferences > Source tab, in the Dictionary pull-down menu, I do NOT see English (United States) [w_accents], although I do see English (United States).
> 
> What’s wrong?
> 
>> On 4 Jan2018, at 4:50 PM, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Raul Martinez,
>> 
>> I postponed installing High Sierra on my primary machine until a couple of weeks ago. When I finally installed, I did a clean installed: I partitioned the disk, and then installed High Sierra on a new partition.
>> 
>> Until I read your message, I hadn't installed CocoAspell. Just now, I did, without problems. Here's what I did:
>> 
>> a) This year for the first time, we supplied the CocoAspell install package in /Applications/TeX with MacTeX-2017. I found it there and installed with no problems,
>> 
>> b) Then I opened Apple's System Preferences and selected the new Spelling preference pane at the bottom. In the first column, I checked the first entry, English (United States) [w_accents]. On the right side, I checked the URL and TeX/LaTeX filters.
>> 
>> c) Next I ran TeXShop. In TeXShop Preferences, under the Source Tab, in the Dictionary pull down menu, I selected
>> English (United States) [w_accents] and clicked OK.
>> 
>> d) Then I restarted TeXShop. One of my documents automatically loaded, and tex command words were not marked as misspelled.
>> 
>> Dick Koch 
>> 
>>> On Jan 4, 2018, at 1:33 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 4, 2018, at 2:37 PM, R Martinez <rm.tech at mac.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I’m using TeXShop 3.95 and High Sierra (macOS 10.13.2). I use a top-of-the-line 2016 MacBook Pro.
>>>> 
>>>> Before I updated to 10.13.2, I was successfully using cocoaspell with TeXShop 3.9x. After updating the OS, I’ve lost the connection to  cocoaspell, so I have no spell checking. 
>>>> 
>>>> Of course, before writing to the list I performed my due diligence to no avail.
>>>> 
>>>> I’ll appreciate suggestions.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Raúl Martínez
>>> 
>>> Howdy,
>>> 
>>> What exactly do you mean When you say that you've ``lost the connection to cocoAspell''? Did you already have cocoAspell installed when you switched to High Sierra or did you install it on a new system? Can you access the Spelling Preference Pane in System Preferences? 
>>> 
>>> Good Luck,
>>> 
>>> Herb Schulz
>>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)

Howdy,

What dictionary did you enable in System Preferences->Spelling Dictionaries tab?

I checked English and it shows up in the Dictionary section of TeXShop->Preferences Source tab.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)