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zzano

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Registered: 2005-05-18

Posts: 40

Abi...??

This is a request for help to all the Abiword GURUS in Archland. I have been trying for the past three weeks to activate the spell-check feature in Abiword under Arch/KDE. I have added the additional Plugin-ins package as well as aspell and ispell. Despite the fact that I have selected "English" in Abiword Preferences, the spell-check icon remains grayed out and refuses to do it's thing.

I have also tried installing OpenOffice and it's spell check function works perfectly. Has anyone else experienced the same problem with Abiword?

TNX

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Abi...??

have you installed a matching aspell dictionary?

zzano

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Registered: 2005-05-18

Posts: 40

Re: Abi...??

Tnx for the response.
I assumed that by installing aspell it add (as a dependancy) all of the necessary componants required to function properly. From withinn the Abiword application I selected the American English Dictionary. Could you be a bit more specific as to how I can add/activate the proper Dictionary?

TNX

pressh

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: Abi...??

nope, it does not install a dictionary by default

Extra      office      aspell-de      20030222-1      German dictionary for aspell      2005-01-24
Extra     office     aspell-el     0.50-3     Greek dictionary for aspell.     2004-09-14
Extra     office     aspell-en     6.0-1     English dictionary for aspell     2004-09-10
Extra     office     aspell-es     0.50-4     Spanish dictionary for aspell     2004-09-14
Extra     office     aspell-fi     0.7-1     Finnish dictionary for aspell     2005-06-18
Extra     office     aspell-fr     0.50.3-2     French dictionary for aspell     2004-09-14
Extra     office     aspell-it     0.53.0-2     Italian dictionary for aspell     2004-09-14
Extra     office     aspell-nl     0.50-3     Dutch dictionary for aspell     2004-09-14
Extra     office     aspell-pt     0.50-3     Portuguese dictionary for aspell     2004-09-14
Extra     office     aspell-ru     0.99f7-1     Russian dictionary for aspell

pick one :d

zzano

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Registered: 2005-05-18

Posts: 40

Re: Abi...??

TNX pressh!

I did a man-page on aspell and it's all greek to me. I was hoping for a simple "select the appropriate language", but that doesn't seem to be the case.

First: is aspell the best dictionary program to use with Abiword? Second: if so, if I do a # aspell, which option do I use?

I'm a bit surprised that there isn't more infromation available to the setup procedure.

any suggestions?

stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: Abi...??

zzano, pressh's post shows that the actual languages are available as separate packages. So you'll want to pacman -S aspell-en, for example. Once done, Abiword should "just work".

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zzano

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Registered: 2005-05-18

Posts: 40

Re: Abi...??

TNX stonecrest. My bad. The man page for aspell showed quite a few command line options which could be envoked... but little in the way of guidance. I appreciate your time and will give it a try tonight.

zzano

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Registered: 2005-05-18

Posts: 40

Re: Abi...??

Aspell-en download worked fine and mispelled words are undeerscored in red. However, Abiword crashes when spell checker is activated. apparently this is a known bug as reported on google.