From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 11:25:37 EST
Phil,
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 11:01, Phil Dibowitz wrote:
> 3. Perhaps.. a note "Note Debain users, debian abiword is compiled with
> pspell support, you'll need the "aspell-en" package... and maybe if you
> want to be extra verbose a word on how aspell and pspell are connected
Debian is actually a slippery fish here. They've flip-flopped a few
times between:
1) Using AbiWord's builtin ispell and dictionaries
2) Patching AbiWord to use their system dictionaries
3) Compiling AbiWord to use aspell/pspell
We try to keep the documentation as up-to-date as possible, but it's
very hard to support third-party builds, especially if they patch your
sources. Hitting moving targets sucks, especially since we're not
directly responsible for them, and they don't exactly communicate to us
what sort of modifications and configuration options they make when
releasing a new copy. And our time and ambition to search this out
ourselves is, well, limited at best.
If you can, check out our abiword-docs module, and send us a new copy of
infospelling.abw, complete with your Aspell/Pspell notes. The reason
that our current Pspell info is so short is that Pspell is *way* simpler
than Ispell to setup and configure properly. You probably already have
the dictionaries down on your machine. And if you don't, well, that's
kind-of your fault. But we should still make some note of it, yes.
Dom
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