Re: dictionary under osx

As Alan suspected, on Mac OS X we use the AppleSpell dictionaries
provided by the system. Make sure that the appropriate one is installed
system wide, then just select your text and "Set Language" within
AbiWord to use German language dictionary or other language as desired.
If you want a language to be your default, check out the wiki on our web
site: www.abisource.com where there should be instructions.

Hope this helps!

Ryan

Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Fritz-Julius Grafe wrote:
>
>
>> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:29:06 +0100
>> From: Fritz-Julius Grafe <grafefri@student.hu-berlin.de>
>> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
>> Subject: dictionary under osx
>>
>>
>> i searched the entire system for an american.hash file to replace
>>
>
> You shouldn't need to replace it but rather add more dictionaries for
> other languages, in this case deutsch.hash for German spelling.
>
> The Spelling FAQ does say add and makes no mention of replace
> http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/IntlFaqSpellChecking
>
>
>> with the deutsch.hash and deutsch.hash-encoding. couldnt find a
>> thing. i even looked into the pkg file from abi word not a thing...
>> thx for your help in advance,
>>
>
> The generic spell checking instructions might not make sense for Mac OSX.
>
> >From looking at FJF's Abiword for Mac page
> http://www.abisource.com/~fjf/
>
> It seems like Abiword should - thanks to the enchant spelling library -be
> able to automatically use the German dictionaries provided by Mac OSX.
> (The page is rather long but to quickly get to the relevant part I
> searched within the page for the word "spell".)
>
> If you haven't installed the Mac OSX Deutsch dictionary that might be
> worth a try.
>
> I hope this helps but I'm not a Mac user myself I just wanted to make sure
> you got some kind of prompt response. I was able to search around and
> find out this much, maybe you can continue searching and find a fix or
> perhaps one of the other Mac users will be able to make a suggestions.
>
> Sincerely
>
> Alan Horkan
>
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