CocoAspell

This was a great utility worked all the way to Lion, but now it won't compile the dictionaries and it looks like a dead duck. Excellent word replacement/suggestion, easy to use..developer...where are you now?

This is a Cocoa wrapper around Aspell - a software package that hasn't been updated in over 18 months (abandonware?). Aspell claims it is better than Word 97 - a 13 year old piece of software. There are no comparisons to the current spell checkers built into OS X. Can someone please tell me why I would want to switch over to this?...

I have tried installing CocoAspell already 3 times by now, but the prefpane never appears...All the other files install except of the prefpane.. Can anyone at all give me an explanation/solution for this issue??

I installed CocoAspell to help with spellchecking TeX documents (TeXShop). I liked the concept but I did not find it particularly helpful, and I preferred the native Apple spellcheck (despite underlining the TeX commands). But after i uninstalled it, the English dictionary in Spelling did not work (in any program, such as TextEdit, Mail, etc.). The other languages worked fine (red underlines, and so on), but English did not. Eventually, after much troubleshooting, I simply deleted the AppleSpell.service file from the system/library/services folder and reinstalled the one from my other Mac. It now works fine. I just wanted to provide this feedback in case anyon else has similar problems.

I installed cocoAspell on my new Mac on Intel today. After six hours trying to make it work, I've decided to give up. But before, I'll leave a post here in case somebody can help me. The installation program seemed to work well, got the Spelling in System Preferences and chose the dictionary. I downloaded three dicitonaries and the only one that compiled without error messages was the English one. To compile them I cd into their directories and sudid ./configure make install Is there anything else I should have done? I pointed my PATH variable to Library/PreferencePanes/Spelling.prefPane/Contents/Resources/cocoAspell.service/Contents/MacOS/cocoAspell that was the only binary I could find and if I type cocoaspell check myfile.txt on the bash shell, the program starts, registers the 3 dicitionaries and goes idle. I must have done something wrong altogether.

Works perfectly, and has good dictionaries, and intelligently plays with html, latex, and other coding/formats. As donationware it's purrrrrfect.

hmmm... spell check comes built into OS X....

Sorry to write YA-comment. For those having trouble compiling this, you must do it manually from inside the Dict folder using Terminal. Please read the readme inside the aspell-en-6.0 folder... you need to do: 1/ ./configure 2/ make 3/ make install Then it should work. Kind of.

Yup, confirmed same problem with 2.01b. English dict that comes with the install will not compile.

Having a problem with this beta on 10.3.9. It can't seem to compile the English dict that comes with it. locate finds /usr/bin/make without problems.

Sooo much faster! Great! The dictionary install is abit more confusing though. There were 6 files in the Da (danish) folder. Didin't know what to pick and when I did I had to expand the file first.

1.4.3 will not remember ' Allow run-together words' or any of the filters.

App still states 1.4.2 and it doesn't fix problems with Keynote 2. It still freezzes after typing a few letters.

this really is a superb utility and the price is great, I have used it on 10.2 AND 10.3 am presently on 10.3.7 using 1.4.1 and it works fine, stable, fast and great spellings and dictionaries.

I downloaded and installed 1.4.1 today on my eMac with OSX 10.3.2 and lost all spelling functions.

PANTHER PROBLEM: Many programs using Aspell have problems, e.g. Mail can't open new message windows. I understand that the author is working on this. Otherwise a great little thing! Supports more languages better than anything else I've seen!

There are still problems with languages that use less well know character sets. The Welsh dictionary, for instance, will not compile. maybe someone could look at the way the charsets get converted internally, and solve this? I am sure it's not a big job.

The preference pane doesn't remember which filters I've checked so I can't use it's LaTeX awareness. (10.2.6)

Hey, it's aspell for OSX. If you're using jEdit, there's nothing better integrated. I also like Excalibur if you work with LaTeX a lot...