From: Martin Sevior (msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 17:38:28 EDT
HI Chris,
I believe yuour problem is this. AbiWord can be built to use two
different types of dictionaries, Those that work with the program "ispell"
and those that work with the program "psell". . Ximian builds AbiWord that
use "psell", we build packages that work with "ispell". All the
dictionaries on our website only work with "ispell". So you have to ways
to solve your prolem.
1. Get the appropriate dictionary from the ximian website.
2. Install our AbiWord rpm instead. Since we don't supply rpm's for
Mandrake 8.1 I would recommend trying to find the correct dictionary from
Ximian.
However I'm not sure ximian supplies a British dictionary. You might
instead
have to set your docuemnts to use US- English --- YUK!
If they don't send them a polite flame :-)
Cheers
Martin
On 6 Sep 2002, Chris Abrams wrote:
> Hi Ignaz,
>
> Thanks for your advice. I tried it out but I still get the same problem.
> I don't know if it's at all related but I can't get spellchecking
> working in Evolution either!!
>
> Chris Abrams.
>
>
> On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 09:14, ignaz.forster@gmx.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > you could try the following:
> > In your home directory there should be a directory calles /.AbiSuite with a
> > AbiWord.Profile file in it.
> > It worked to me to set the following entries to this:
> > <Select
> > scheme="standard"
> > autosaveprefs="1"
> > useenvlocale="1"
> > />
> >
> > and to create a new profile called "standard" (not _builtin_), and to copy
> > all entries containing the language files and paste it into the new profile.
> > Then I replaced the en-US with my language, and it worked.
> >
> > I think there should be a more easy way to do that, but as I'm using the
> > BeOS version, I can't use the configuration boxes, so I don't know how to change
> > it that way...
> >
> > Ignaz Forster
> >
> >
> > > I've installed version 1.02 of AbiWord on Mandrake 8.1 using an RPM from
> > > the Ximian website. I uninstalled version 0.92 of AbiWord (the one that
> > > shipped with Mandrake 8.1) and, following previous advice on this list,
> > > deleted the .AbiSuite directory from my home directory. I installed
> > > AbiWord 1.02 without any problems but could not get the spellchecker to
> > > work, with the language set to English (UK) or English (US). Each time
> > > the program returned the message "Could not load the dictionary for the
> > > XXX language". So I downloaded the abispell-en-GB rpm from SourceForge
> > > and installed that. I selected English (UK) as my language, but again
> > > the spellcheck facility in AbiWord reported that it was unable to load
> > > the dictionary (in this case the en-GB dictionary). I have verified that
> > > the british.hash file is in the /usr/share/AbiSuite/dictionary
> > > directory.
> > >
> > > Any advice on how to resolve this problem would be much appreciated.
> > >
> > > Many thanks,
> > >
> > > Chris Abrams.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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