[OS X TeX] CocoAspell still not working for me

[R Martinez]

Hi all,

Themis, I had all sorts of trouble with CocoAspell, a worthy endeavor that has outlived its usefulness. I did install it and it sort of worked idiosyncratically. It’s badly out of date unfortunately. And it shows. I gave up on it at least a year ago, before Monterey and my M1 Mac came along.  I don’t even want to think how CocoAspell would fare in the new environment. 

Consider all the time you’re wasting trying to get CocoAspell to work. Not worth it. 

Best wishes, Raúl 

> On Jan 17, 2022, at 8:46 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
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>> On Jan 17, 2022, at 9:58 AM, Themis Matsoukas via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
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>> I installed CocoAspell but I cannot get it to work. Basically, it doesn’t catch *any* typos. Here is what I did:
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>> 1. I selected a dictionary in the CocoAspell preference pane
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>> <0.png>
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>> 2. I selected
>> <1.png>
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> Howdy,
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> Strangely it looks like you selected [w_accents], not [wo_accents].
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>> 3. I set the dictionary in TexShop
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>> <2.png>
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>> 4… but when I spell-check *no* typos are caught. If I change to the normal English dictionary in the Spelling & Grammar window, then spell checking works, but of course it marks all the latex commands as well. 
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>> Too many moving parts to get this thing to work, what am I missing???
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>> <3.png>
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> You might try selecting English (i.e., all English) rather than a specific version. It seems that cocoAspell is finding the dictionaries after compiling.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> herbs at wideopenwest.com
> 
> 
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