Re: abiword spellcheck?

From: RMS (vtinfoman_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Mar 07 2004 - 09:08:25 EST

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    hi francis,

    thanks for the info.: i did some digging in google to
    find an aspell-en rpm [seems the sources i was using
    didnt include it!]

    so now my abispell check works fine!

    thank you

    richard
    --- Francis James Franklin
    <f.j.franklin_at_sheffield.ac.uk> wrote:
    > On 6 Mar 2004, at 21:42, RMS wrote:
    > > I installed Abiword 2.0.3.1. And abispell from
    > sourceforge. I am
    > > running MDK 9.2 with all updates.
    > >
    > > Anyway, Abiword doesn't do its spell check, if you
    > click on the spell
    > > check it says "The spelling check is complete."
    > But it doesn't correct
    > > any errors. KDE spell checker settings are:
    > English (american); ISO
    > > 8859-1; International Ispell. [Which are the
    > settings that work with
    > > MozillaMail 1.6.]
    > >
    > > What am I doing wrong?
    > >
    > > Any suggestions?
    >
    > AbiWord doesn't use the KDE spell checker. Probably
    > the Mandrake RPM is
    > built to use aspell rather than ispell, in which
    > case you can ignore
    > abispell and all the ispell hashes. However, you
    > will need to install
    > the aspell and aspell-en RPMs.
    >
    > Frank
    >
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