Keith Powell wrote:
>I am experimenting with several distros to see which I want to use as my Linux
>distribution. (Have been messing about with various distros for too long and
>it's time to standardise). I would like to use Abiword as my word processor.
>
>Abiword spell checking (English-GB) works with my SUSE and my Libranet
>distros, but not with my Mandrake distro. In Mandrake, the spell check icon
>and the menu item remain greyed out, and nothing I have tried will activate
>it. I am using version 2.0.7 with Mandrake and SUSE and 2.0.1 in Libranet. I
>have also tried 2.1.3 in Mandrake.
>
>As far as I can tell,"normal.awt" and "profile" settings are the same for all,
>and aspell with an English dictionary is installed in all the distros. Ispell
>is also installed.
>
>Has anyone got Abiword to spell check in Mandrake, please? If so, could you
>give me a guide what to do?
>
>Many thanks for any help.
>
>Keith
>
>
>
Have you tried installing Enchant? I don't have any experience with
AbiWord in Mandrake, but I know that the SuSE and Fedora official builds
depend on Enchant. http://www.abisource.com/download/
Ryan
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