Re: Spellcheck in non-English language

On all platforms except Windows (since it doesn't have one), we use the
system spellchecker, through a library called Enchant. Since you're on
a modern Linux system, you probably have the Aspell checker installed/in
use. As long as you have the desired dictionary for Aspell (or whatever
other spell checker out of the supported ones you use), AbiWord can pick
it up. You must mark any text with the correct language by selecting
it, choosing Tools, then Set Language, and selecting the correct one,
which will automatically enable spell checking if available. (By unix
in the FAQ the author likely meant unix/linux/bsd, and AbiSpell is what
is needed on Windows-only at this point: most if not all builds on Linux
use Enchant which makes this obsolete)

Hope this helps! Thanks for using AbiWord!

Ryan

mihail@riseup.net wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I have AbiWord installed on a BeaFanatIX linux setup. I want to spell
> check in a non-English langauge (Bulgarian).
>
> I went to the Internationalization FAQ:
> http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/IntlFaqSpellChecking
>
> What I found there was totally confusing:
>
> (i) first it says: 'See IntlFaqChangingLanguage to set the default
> document language'. There is mention of Windows and Unix (where it says
> 'use something like' - not exactly computing speak if you ask me) but not
> Linux.
>
> (ii) further down it says: 'There is a large number of abispell packages
> provided for various language. You can download the package for your
> language from http://sourceforge.net/projects/abiword'. But this link
> simply goes to sourceforge where you can download the whole of abiword. No
> individual options are given.
>
> (iii) Finally, we have 'Note: Debian uses aspell dictionaries, dont forget
> to install them'. OK, so I think this is for me as BeaFanatIX is a branch
> of Ubuntu is a branch of Debian. But this is hardly a full instruction of
> what I should be doing ...
>
> If anyone does know how I can spellcheck in a language other than English
> and what I should do I would be very grateful if they could tell me.
>
> It would also be helpful then to change the FAQ so others know what to do
> in future.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mihail
>
>

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Received on Wed May 30 19:28:30 2007