[OS X TeX] TeX on Snow Leopard

[Peter Vamos]

At 20:56 +0100 30/8/09, Frank STENGEL wrote:

>Le 30 août 2009 à 21:06, Peter Vamos a écrit :
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>  > I did notice
>  > one thing though: lots more  LaTeX commands were underlined in red 
>>  in the input file by the spellchecker than I remembered. [ TeXShop-> 
>>  Prefs-> Source check Spelling ticked, TeXShop->Edit Check spelling 
>>  while typing checked.] A comparison with Mac 3 on the same file 
>>  confirmed this. In fact most of the commands are now underlined 
>>  (exceptions: \begin \end \item ..). Mac 1 was running CoCoAspell 
>>  before SL but not Mac 2. The pref pane is still there and working on
>  > Mac 1 but CoCoAspell itself seems to be broken, checked in 
>>  TexEdit.Now both Macs 1 and 2 seems to be the same, unsatisfactory 
>>  state as far as TeX spellchecking is concerned. Can anyone else 
>>  confirm this and/or offer an explanation?
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>Have you checked the following: In the "Language & Text" (system)
>preference pane, Text tab, do you have "Automatic by Language" 
>selected in the spelling popup? I discovered that changing it to a 
>specific language (something like "English (Aspell)" solves your issue.

Frank,

You are right. This works! Thanks. This is new in 
SL. I did notice this tab on my Mac 2  but this 
machine  did not have CoCoAspell so changing it 
from "Automatic by Language" to British English 
had no effect. On the other hand on my Mac 1 
where I did have CoCoAspell, I did check 
CoCoAspell's pref pane but  not this new  System 
Pref and this had no effect either. So I 
concluded, wrongly, that CoCoAspell was broken. 
It works but you have to set it in _both_ its own 
_and_ in the System Preferences now. So to sum up:

If you want TeX/LaTeX sensitive spell checking in 
SL, _do_ install CoCoAspell, check its Pref pane: 
languages you want _and_ tick the TeX/LaTeX 
filter.
Now go to System preferences -> Language & Text 
in the popup under Automatic, the languages you 
selected in CoCoAspell's pref pane will now show 
up, e.g. English (Aspell). Choose this and this 
will now work.

Thanks again

Peter