Re: Spell Check Won't Work

From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 05:27:29 EST

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    On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Phil Dibowitz wrote:
    > F J Franklin wrote:
    > > Well, if you're using debian's abiword, you're almost certainly using
    > > pspell not ispell, so try "apt-get install aspell-en"
    >
    > I assume you meant something along the lines of "if you're using
    > Debian's abiword, then it is almost certainly expecting aspell" ??
    >
    > As opposed to "you are using".. if I understand correctly.

    I don't see the difference. AbiWord uses pspell, not aspell - although now
    that GNU aspell is out the distinction is gone - and pspell uses whatever.

    > Anyway, yes, that worked perfectly! Thank you very much....

    welcome

    > Now my question is... WTF!?!? This doesn't seem to be documented
    > ANYWHERE. I didn't even know abiword COULD use aspell, all docs talk
    > about ispell... How is one supposed to know this? How did you know this?
    > Did I miss something?

    AbiWord's default 1.0.x builds use ispell; pspell is an option that some
    people/distributions use. It's well known that debian uses the pspell
    option. Certainly obvious looking at

    http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/abiword-common.html

    and a Google search for "abiword debian dictionary" makes it pretty clear
    as well...

    Still, I suppose you're right. What changes, and where, do you suggest?

    Ciao, Frank

    Francis James Franklin
    F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk

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