How strange. Catalan Hunspell dictionary works on Mail, TextEdit, NWP..., and generally a bit better than Aspell's. I assume that , in NWP, the settings are right: Preferences > Language > Icelandic > Spelling: Icelandic (Library). jem cabanes [log in to unmask] On 07.01.2011, at 11.14, Žorvaršur Davķšsson wrote: > Hello Kino, > > On 01.01.2011, at 12:29, you wrote: > >> On Jan 1, 2011, at 8:03 PM, Žorvaršur Davķšsson wrote: >> >>> I've always wanted to set up my own (Icelandic) spell checker. :-) >> >> If you have not tried hunspell dictionaries... >> >> 1. Download <http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/is_IS.zip>; >> 2. Unzip it; >> 3. Put 'is_IS.aff' and 'is_IS.dic' in /Users/you/Library/Spelling/; >> (Create 'Spelling' folder if you don't have it.) >> 4. Open System Preferences => Language & Text => Text and choose 'Ķslenska (Library)'. >> >> You can use it in NWP too. >> >> This works in Snow Leopard only. > > > This works fine in Apple Mail and TextEdit but unfortunately not in NWP. I followed you advice regarding the installation; is there any extra trick I might have to do? > > > Žorvaršur > OS X 10.6.5 > MacBook Pro 17''