Subject: Re: Spell checker.
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Apr 25 2001 - 14:47:09 CDT
Hi Keith,
You might want to recompile with Pspell support built in
(pspell.sourceforge.net). Pspell is much better supported, at least on
Linux. In our CVS sources, you can now do cool things like this:
<en-US>color</en-US> <en-GB>colour</en-GB> inside of the same document or
line, so that if you need to write multi-lingual documents, it'll "just
work" for you for whatever language(s) you need to use.
Dom
>From: Keith Powell <keithp@g4jvx.screaming.net>
>Reply-To: keithp@g4jvx.screaming.net
>To: abiword-user@abisource.com
>Subject: Spell checker.
>Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:13:56 +0100
>
>This is my first posting to the group, as I have only just subscribed.
>
>I have downloaded the latest Abiword - congratulations to all who are
>developing such an excellent program.
>
>But I have a problem with it, and also with the previous version, which was
>the first one I used.
>
>I can't get it to spell check in UK English, only in the default American
>English.
>
>I replaced the American.hash file with a British.hash file as it said in
>the
>FAQ's. But when I start the program I get an error message that it can't
>find
>the American. hash file, and the spelling checker does not work. So I
>changed
>the name of the British.hash file to American.hash. This gave me an error
>message: "Illegal format hash table.
>/usr/share/Abisuite/dictionary/american.
>hash - expected magic2 0x9602, got 0x35". Again the spelling checker did
>not
>work.
>
>The language selector does not make any difference.
>
>I have also looked at the Abiword.profile file as it is mentioned in the
>FAQ's as part of language changing. According to the FAQ's, this should be
>a
>text file, but mine is an HTML file containing a blank "text-entering" type
>of box with a down pointing arrow on the right. There is no text to edit.
>
>The previous version of Abiword was installed from the SuSE7.1 distro, but
>this latest version is installed using "rpm -Uvh" as it recommended on the
>Abisource site. I have installed the gtk one, rather than the gnome one.
>
>I have read the archives but they don't solve the problem for me. Apart
>from
>this, the rest of the program appears to work perfectly.
>
>Please can anyone help me? I really do like to make certain my spelling is
>perfect before I send anything out!
>
>Many thanks
>
>Keith
>
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