[OS X TeX] CocoAspell still not working for me

[Themis Matsoukas]

Hi Raúl,

I totally agree, but what do you use then? Hard to believe that in year 2022 there is no latex-aware spell checker available for the mac. The regular spell checker is an even bigger pain that CocoAspell (which only recognizes a small subset of latex). 

I used to use Excalibur, but the app is totally broken in recent OS. The developer has promised a new version in the works, I hope it materializes. 

…or I’ll take up programming to write one myself.

Themis






> On Jan 17, 2022, at 12:13 PM, R Martinez via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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 It’s badly out of date unfortunately.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:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 17, 2022, at 9:58 AM, Themis Matsoukas via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I installed CocoAspell but I cannot get it to work. Basically, it doesn’t catch *any* typos. Here is what I did:
>>> 
>>> 1. I selected a dictionary in the CocoAspell preference pane
>>> 
>>> <0.png>
>>> 
>>> 2. I selected
>>> <1.png>
>> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> Strangely it looks like you selected [w_accents], not [wo_accents].
>> 
>>> 
>>> 3. I set the dictionary in TexShop
>>> 
>>> <2.png>
>>> 
>>> 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. 
>>> 
>>> Too many moving parts to get this thing to work, what am I missing???
>>> 
>>> <3.png>
>> 
>> 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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