[OS X TeX] CocoAspell still not working for me

Gary L. Gray glgray at me.com
Mon Jan 17 13:37:47 EST 2022 

A little more than a year ago, I switched to Sublime Text for all my LaTeX'ing and haven't looked back. With LaTeXTools installed, you have a LaTeX-aware editor spell checker built in. And it has so many other cool LaTeX features.

Gary

> On Mon, Jan 17, 2022, at 12:59 PM, Themis Matsoukas via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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>> 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 It’s badly out of date unfortunately.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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