Re: TeXworks and hunspell

["Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

On 2012-03-24 10:15, Ken Brown wrote:
> 1. The manual (which is supposed to be available from the Help menu)
> doesn't get installed.

Fixed in Ports git.

> 2. TeXworks requires hunspell. Are you interested in moving this into
> the distro? I suppose I could ITP that also, but I don't really know
> anything about it, so I'm not the best person to be its maintainer. BTW,
> I built hunspell using your .cygport, and cygport warned me that the
> following three scripts didn't get packaged:
>
> usr/bin/affixcompress
> usr/bin/makealias
> usr/bin/wordforms
>
> Was this deliberate or just an oversight?

Deliberate; they shouldn't be needed by anything.

> Another question is how to make the commands under the Help menu that
> want to open a URL work.  Or would this require a KDE desktop?

No, but it does require a browser; does installing xdg-utils from Ports 
help?


Yaakov