Re: Help With AbiWord For Windows?

From: curtisminbc@canada.com
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 04:18:06 EDT

  • Next message: Peter Jacobi: "Re: Help With AbiWord For Windows?"

    Steven,

    Well I am using a US keyboard layout
    with Windows 98.

    What I am wondering is if I need a
    Danish font to be able to enter Danish
    characters or?

    Thanks for your help so far.

    RGDS

    Curtis

    On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:02:48 +1000,
    Stephen Viles wrote:

    >
    > If you can type Danish and Mandarin
    > characters into other Windows
    > applications, you should be able to
    type
    > them into AbiWord. Let
    > us know if you have trouble with
    > entering the characters.
    >
    > You can download a Danish (da-DK)
    > dictionary from
    >
    http://www.abisource.com/download/abispell.phtml
    > Extract the zip file into the
    dictionary
    > directory, which is
    > normally C:\Program
    > Files\AbiSuite\dictionary
    >
    > Then in AbiWord, use Tools - Language
    to
    > set the current language.
    > When you have selected Danish, you will
    > see da-DK in the status bar
    > at the bottom of the AbiWord window.
    > You can use this method to
    > find the language-country code
    > combination for other languages eg.
    > en-AU for English (Australia).
    >
    > No Chinese (zh-) dictionary is
    available
    > from the above page
    > at present, but someone else may know
    > where you can get one.
    >
    > 29/04/03 9:37:39 AM,
    > curtisminbc@canada.com wrote:
    >
    > >Hi there,
    > >
    > >I have AbiWord 1.0.5 for Windows 98.
    > >
    > >And what I am wondering is if their
    is a
    > >way that I can type Danish and
    Mandarin
    > >(Chinese) characters with AbiWord and
    at
    > >the same time provide a spellcheck
    with
    > >the above mentioned languages.
    > >
    > >Your help is appreciated.
    > >
    > >Curtis
    > >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    -----------------------------------------------
    > To unsubscribe from this list, send a
    > message to
    > abiword-user-request@abisource.com with
    > the word
    > unsubscribe in the message body.
    -----------------------------------------------
    To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to
    abiword-user-request@abisource.com with the word
    unsubscribe in the message body.



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Tue Apr 29 2003 - 04:29:51 EDT