[texworks] Spell checking libraries for TexWorks

Stefan Löffler st.loeffler at gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 10:48:48 CEST 2020


Hi,

On 26.04.20 22:24, Wim de Boer wrote:
> I installed MacTex and TeXworks on a new MacBook Pro with MacOS 10.15.4, which works fine. But I am unable to install the spell checker cocoAspell, which cannot be installed automatically anymore because of “notarisation” by Apple. I installed it by hand. The installer claimed successfully installed, but it does not work. 
>
> WHAT CAN I DO?
> Can I try to use Hunspell with Openoffice dictionaries with MacTex?

TeXworks comes with spell checking capabilities included (based on
hunspell). You may need to install dictionaries, though. Please have a
look at https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks/wiki/SpellingDictionaries
for some guidelines.

HTH,
Stefan


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