Re: abiword spellcheck

On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 16:46 -0400, Scott Robinson wrote:
> I am using Abiword on a laptop, dual booting Windows XP and Mandrake 10.
> I have intalled Abiword on both OS partitions. I am having a problem with
> the spellcheck in Mandrake (Windows abiword works fine).
>
> I have installed the latest version for Mandrake, Abiword 2.0.6 (prior to
> this I had 2.0.3). When I perform the spellcheck the balloon message just
> says the search is complete and leaves the misspelled words as they were.
> Spell as you type does not correct any misspelled words.
>
> Under the spelling options the custom dictionary is greyed out. I also
> have installed abispell, aspell and enchant. Can you assist in getting
> spellcheck to function?

What is the output of:
enchant-lsmod
enchant-lsmod -lang

Also, what aspell packages do you have installed?
rpm -qa |grep aspell

Spell checking should work with the versions of packages that came with
mandrake 10.0, which are:
abiword-2.0.3-2mdk
libenchant1-1.1.2-1mdk
enchant-1.1.2-1mdk

Also, where did you get 2.0.6? Are you sure that's not a mandrake 9.2
package? There's a 2.1.5 package for mandrake 10.0 on
http://www.eslrahc.com/10.0/
It's best to always use the package for your specific version of the
distro.

Also make sure that the language for the document (tools, set language)
is set to your preferred language, and that you have the aspell package
for it installed.
To avoid confusing, you can first "select all", then set the language. I
had the same weird behaviour when the top of the document was set to
Dutch, while the rest of the document was set to English.

-- 
Marcel Pol
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