Re: Help on Spell-Checking

Alan Horkan wrote:

>On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
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>>Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:47:11 -0500
>>From: Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net>
>>To: "Renaux, Thierry" <tre@msc-ge.com>
>>Cc: "'abiword-user@abisource.com'" <abiword-user@abisource.com>
>>Subject: Re: Help on Spell-Checking
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>>Renaux, Thierry wrote:
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>>>I am new to Abiword and using ABIWORD 2.2.9 under MacOSX 10.3.9. So
>>>far, so good, works really fine. I have downloaded the French
>>>dictionary (linked in ABIWORD. Got 2 files : french.hash and
>>>french.something) I would like to know where to place these files in
>>>order to perform french spell-checking. Documentation says to place
>>>these files aside american.hash, but I could not find this file on my
>>>system !
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>>AbiWord should use your AppleSpell dictionaries and the french
>>dictionaries should not be necessary. You can use "Set Language" under
>>the Tools menu with your document selected in order to set it for French
>>spell checking.
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>>>It is also impossible to specify the dictionary location from the
>>>Preference Menu, buttons cannot be activated. Also a problem with the
>>>paper size. Abiword seems to be unable to remember my settings and I
>>>have to set the paper size each and every time I open my documents.
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>>You will need to edit your normal.abt - search the list archives for
>>information how to do this. I do not use a Mac, so I do not know where
>>the normal.abt should be placed on that system.
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>Did you mean normal.awt or has something changed?
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>- Alan Horkan.
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No, nothing has changed, you are correct. Normal.awt (I thought abt
looked wrong...)

Ryan
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Received on Thu Oct 13 16:15:17 2005