Subject: Re: Dictionary
From: AL Grant (agrant@runbox.com)
Date: Sun Jan 20 2002 - 18:05:51 CST
F J Franklin wrote:
>On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, AL Grant wrote:
>
>>I have Abiword installed and running on a FBSD-4.4-Stable box.
>>Also present is /usr/local/bin/ispell &&
>>/usr/local/share/AbiSuite/dictionary/american.hash.
>>I have tried everything I know how to get the application to use a
>>dictionary. Yet when I use the application every word is red underlined
>>and in the preferences the dictionary option is grayed out. What do I
>>have to do to enable the use of a dictionary?
>>
>
>You shouldn't need to have ispell installed. You do, however, require a
>very recent AbiWord, since there were problems with spelling on FreeBSD
>until recently - what version are you running?
>
>Also, what architecture are you using (little- or big-endian)? And how
>did you compile AbiWord (make, or configure && make)?
>
>Regards, Frank
>
>Francis James Franklin
>F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
>
>It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and
>wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.
>That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong.
> --- Philip Roth
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Frank,
I installed it from ports using make install clean. It is version 0.9.6
and I am running little endian.
If I can help in any other way with more information or anything let me
know.
Regards AL
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