On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 10:42 -0700, Larry Gagnon wrote:
> I have AbiWord v2.2.8 running under Linux. I wish to change the spell
> checker dictionary to British English. I downloaded the british.hash
> file from sourceforge as stated in the docs and placed that in /usr/
> X11R6/share/AbiSuite-2.2/dictionary and then went to Tools, Set
> Language, changed appropriately. On the status bar I have en-GB
> showing but it does not pick up the correct dictionary as I still get
> American spelling.
>
> In the FAQ it states that " Your AbiWord distribution contains a file
> called american.hash. This is a dictionary of (American) English words.
> By adding the hash file (and its associated encoding file) for your
> language of choice to the same directory as this (american.hash)
> dictionary...".
>
> This is INCORRECT. There is NO american.hash file
> anywhere on my system so where does AbiWord get its dictionary from?
Yeah, our docs suck, and are outdated. If you get an AbiWord 2.4 from
your distribution, then most likely it will use the system installed
dictionaries.
Marc
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