On Tuesday 13 Jul 2004 17:08, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> Keith Powell wrote:
> >I am experimenting with several distros to see which I want to use as my
> > Linux distribution. (Have been messing about with various distros for too
> > long and it's time to standardise). I would like to use Abiword as my
> > word processor.
> >
> >Abiword spell checking (English-GB) works with my SUSE and my Libranet
> >distros, but not with my Mandrake distro. In Mandrake, the spell check
> > icon and the menu item remain greyed out, and nothing I have tried will
> > activate it. I am using version 2.0.7 with Mandrake and SUSE and 2.0.1 in
> > Libranet. I have also tried 2.1.3 in Mandrake.
> >
> >As far as I can tell,"normal.awt" and "profile" settings are the same for
> > all, and aspell with an English dictionary is installed in all the
> > distros. Ispell is also installed.
> >
> >Has anyone got Abiword to spell check in Mandrake, please? If so, could
> > you give me a guide what to do?
> >
> >Many thanks for any help.
> >
> >Keith
>
> Have you tried installing Enchant? I don't have any experience with
> AbiWord in Mandrake, but I know that the SuSE and Fedora official builds
> depend on Enchant. http://www.abisource.com/download/
>
> Ryan
Thank you for the suggestion, Ryan.
I have checked and Enchant is installed.
Cheers
Keith
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