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blackhole

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From: Karlsruhe, Germany

Registered: 2008-12-14

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Kile spell check doesn't work in KDE 4.2

Hi there,

when I click on the "Spelling" menu item in Kile, I get the following dialog:

I've chosen "German" in my KDE settings under "Regional & Language" --> "Spell Checker" --> "Default Language"

I also have installed:

schorsch@archie:~$ sudo pacman -Qs spell
local/aspell 0.60.6-4
    A spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell
local/aspell-de 20030222-1
    German dictionary for aspell
local/enchant 1.4.2-1
    A wrapper library for generic spell checking
local/hunspell 1.2.8-1
    Spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program
schorsch@archie:~$

What's wrong here? And what's the error dialog telling me about my PATH variable? Which path do I have to add?

TIA,
Blackhole

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derFrank

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Registered: 2008-04-01

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Re: Kile spell check doesn't work in KDE 4.2

Hi,
afaik Kile is looking for ispell (and ispell-de for the german dictionary) instead of aspell. Try installing than and see whether that works.
hth Frank

Last edited by derFrank (2009-03-01 09:39:26)

blackhole

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From: Karlsruhe, Germany

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Re: Kile spell check doesn't work in KDE 4.2

Great that worked. But now I only have English spell checking in Kile, although I've chosen German in my KDE settings. I assume the KDE settings only refer to aspell. So how can I get the German dictionary for ispell? There is no package such as "ispell-de" in the repository.

Last edited by blackhole (2009-03-01 10:04:42)

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derFrank

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Re: Kile spell check doesn't work in KDE 4.2

You can find ispell-de in the AUR.

Edit: There's an option to choose the language at the bottom of the spellchecking-dialog in Kile [Tools->Spelling->Language]

Last edited by derFrank (2009-03-01 19:58:14)

blackhole

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From: Karlsruhe, Germany

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Re: Kile spell check doesn't work in KDE 4.2

You can find ispell-de in the AUR.

Edit: There's an option to choose the language at the bottom of the spellchecking-dialog in Kile [Tools->Spelling->Language]

Ah, ok, I'll ask my yoghurt. ;-)

Just because I'm curious: Is it correct that aspell is ispell's successor? So if there ever will be a KDE 4 version of Kile it will probably use aspell, right? Just trying to see the connections here...
I mean after all there's a reason behind the fact that ispell-de isn't part of the repository whereas aspell-de is.

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derFrank

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Re: Kile spell check doesn't work in KDE 4.2

Well it seems that aspell (latest version of aspell: 0.60.6,  released in April 2008) is more recent than ispell (3.3.02 from June 2005), so it might be a good idea to use aspell.
But I must admit I have no clue if this is a problem with arch packaging or upstream.

PiotrAlexej

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Registered: 2009-01-23

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Re: Kile spell check doesn't work in KDE 4.2

I wonder if anyone knows a solution now, because there's no Dutch package for ispell.

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

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Re: Kile spell check doesn't work in KDE 4.2

Add this in $HOME/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals :

[KSpell]
KSpell_Client=1
KSpell_DictFromList=1
KSpell_Dictionary=en_GB
KSpell_Encoding=11
KSpell_NoRootAffix=0
KSpell_RunTogether=0