Re: abiword spellcheck?

From: Francis James Franklin (f.j.franklin_at_sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Mar 07 2004 - 04:44:57 EST

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    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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