Abiword Spelling

William Westfall

17 Sep 2003 17 Sep '03

23:42

Help tried everything... cannot spell check, acts as if no dictionary is installed. Using the userlocalbin 2.0 version. Any ideas?

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BandiPat

18 Sep 18 Sep

02:09

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On Wednesday 17 September 2003 07:42 pm, William Westfall wrote:

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Help tried everything... cannot spell check, acts as if no dictionary is installed. Using the userlocalbin 2.0 version.

Any ideas? =============

William, Just curious, did you also install all the new associated files with Abiword? Seems I remember there being something there dealing with spelling. It works wonderfully for me so far and spell checking is accessible from the time I open the program. Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.3-3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...

James Ogley

06:50

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Help tried everything... cannot spell check, acts as if no dictionary is installed. Using the userlocalbin 2.0 version.

Oh, now, something occurred to me... Enchant uses aspell/pspell as it's backend, assuming you're in an English speaking locale, you might want to install aspell-en from the dependencies page on my site. Just a thought... :) -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

Keith Powell

07:52

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On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 7:50 am, James Ogley wrote:

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Help tried everything... cannot spell check, acts as if no dictionary is installed. Using the userlocalbin 2.0 version.

Oh, now, something occurred to me...

Enchant uses aspell/pspell as it's backend, assuming you're in an English speaking locale, you might want to install aspell-en from the dependencies page on my site.

Just a thought... :)

I have installed aspell-en from your site, James, but I still can't get Abiword2 to spell check. I want to try again today, before I send a bug report - especially as some on the list have got it working without any problems. Last night, I installed a new SuSE on my spare hard drive, downloaded and installed Abiword2. All the files installed correctly, but spell checking doesn't work on the second installation either. Cheers Keith

Keith Powell

08:12

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On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 7:50 am, James Ogley wrote:

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Help tried everything... cannot spell check, acts as if no dictionary is installed. Using the userlocalbin 2.0 version.

Oh, now, something occurred to me...

Enchant uses aspell/pspell as it's backend, assuming you're in an English speaking locale, you might want to install aspell-en from the dependencies page on my site.

Just a thought... :)

I have decided to let my "Lost spell check in Abiword2.0" thread lapse and join in on this thread. James, does Enchant need manually setting up at all? On my new installation, (see my previous posting) I now have the "ABC" icon coming active, but there is no spell checking. Cheers Keith

James Ogley

08:20

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James, does Enchant need manually setting up at all?

nafaik

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On my new installation, (see my previous posting) I now have the "ABC" icon coming active, but there is no spell checking.

Let me tell you what settings I have enabled that relate to spell-checking... Tools -> Spelling -> Auto spellcheck Tools -> Spelling -> Spelling Options |-> Check spelling as you type |-> Ignore [all checked] Tools -> Language -> English (UK) -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2) GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

Keith Powell

10:01

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On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 9:20 am, James Ogley wrote:

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Let me tell you what settings I have enabled that relate to spell-checking...

Tools -> Spelling -> Auto spellcheck Tools -> Spelling -> Spelling Options

|-> Check spelling as you type |-> Ignore [all checked]

Tools -> Language -> English (UK)

I have the same enabled, and the same language selcted. I have also tried unchecking "Check spelling as you type" and doing a manual spell check - it still just says that the spell checking is complete. I'll continue trying to see if it is a problem here, although it's the same on two installations :-( Thanks Keith

BandiPat

10:38

New subject: [SLE] Abiword Spelling

On Thursday 18 September 2003 06:01 am, Keith Powell wrote:

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On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 9:20 am, James Ogley wrote:

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Let me tell you what settings I have enabled that relate to spell-checking...

Tools -> Spelling -> Auto spellcheck Tools -> Spelling -> Spelling Options

|-> Check spelling as you type |-> Ignore [all checked]

Tools -> Language -> English (UK)

I have the same enabled, and the same language selcted. I have also tried unchecking "Check spelling as you type" and doing a manual spell check - it still just says that the spell checking is complete.

I'll continue trying to see if it is a problem here, although it's the same on two installations :-(

Thanks

Keith ==============

Keith, It almost has to be a missing file/program you have failed to download from James' site, as Abiword works fine with spellcheck for both he and I. Maybe some others will chime in as well, that are using it or have tried it too. The libwpd program, that allows you to load up WordPerfect files, works nicely as well. I hope to see that one incorporated into OpenOffice soon. One has to remember though that it is designed to load the Windows WordPerfect files (.wpd) and has trouble with Linux WP files (.wpt). Although, I found that changing the extension to .wpd will make those work also. The spell checking thing on your machines is surely missing the same file on both, thus the reason both don't work. I wish it was somehow easy to tell you which one. I know I have almost all of James' files installed from the Dependency list and Misc list, so check some of those to see if you have something missing. What about all the Abiword files? Got all those or just Abiword alone? Just tossing out thoughts for you to check as only you can trace down the problem. good luck, Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.3-3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...

Paul Trevethan

15:00

New subject: [SLE] Abiword Spelling

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:01:49 +0100 Keith Powell wrote:

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On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 9:20 am, James Ogley wrote:

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Let me tell you what settings I have enabled that relate to spell-checking...

Tools -> Spelling -> Auto spellcheck Tools -> Spelling -> Spelling Options

|-> Check spelling as you type |-> Ignore [all checked]

Tools -> Language -> English (UK)

I have the same enabled, and the same language selcted. I have also tried unchecking "Check spelling as you type" and doing a manual spell check - it still just says that the spell checking is complete.

I'll continue trying to see if it is a problem here, although it's the same on two installations :-(

Thanks

Keith

I have recently done the same update to Abiword 2 (positive I got all files) and like Keith it will not spell check anything at all. I have tried the same settings above and have marked selections with obvious spelling mistakes in them, run the spell check and, no matter the variation of scenario, it just keeps saying the check is complete but does not actually do the checking. My thought is that this is not so much a problem with Abiword as with the system recognising aspell-en as the dictionary?! I mean, I have ispell and aspell installed and spell checking works just fine in other word processors that use ispell. Perhaps there is a config required to 'find and use' aspell properly? Just a thought?! Paul.

Peter B Van Campen

18:25

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Hi, YES I think you are on the right track. I reported here a month ago or so that spell checking in KDE 3.1.2 apps has failed on SuSE 8.2 . Never got an answer as to why or how to fix it. Still broke. Let us know what progress you make. PeterB On Thursday 18 September 2003 10:00 am, Paul Trevethan wrote:

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On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:01:49 +0100

Keith Powell wrote:

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On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 9:20 am, James Ogley wrote:

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Let me tell you what settings I have enabled that relate to spell-checking...

Tools -> Spelling -> Auto spellcheck Tools -> Spelling -> Spelling Options

|-> Check spelling as you type |-> Ignore [all checked]

Tools -> Language -> English (UK)

I have the same enabled, and the same language selcted. I have also tried unchecking "Check spelling as you type" and doing a manual spell check - it still just says that the spell checking is complete.

I'll continue trying to see if it is a problem here, although it's the same on two installations :-(

Thanks

Keith

I have recently done the same update to Abiword 2 (positive I got all files) and like Keith it will not spell check anything at all.

I have tried the same settings above and have marked selections with obvious spelling mistakes in them, run the spell check and, no matter the variation of scenario, it just keeps saying the check is complete but does not actually do the checking.

My thought is that this is not so much a problem with Abiword as with the system recognising aspell-en as the dictionary?! I mean, I have ispell and aspell installed and spell checking works just fine in other word processors that use ispell. Perhaps there is a config required to 'find and use' aspell properly?

Just a thought?! Paul.

-- -- Proud to use SuSE Linux, since 5.2 Loving using SuSE Linux 8.2 MyBlog http://vancampen.org/blog/ Nothing is as perfect as a Cultured Diamond There was never any Blood on a Cultured Diamond --

Ben Rosenberg

18:34

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* Peter B Van Campen (peterb@vancampen.org) [030918 11:28]:

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Hi,

YES I think you are on the right track. I reported here a month ago or so that spell checking in KDE 3.1.2 apps has failed on SuSE 8.2 . Never got an answer as to why or how to fix it. Still broke.

Let us know what progress you make.

I just checked to see if Abiword 2.0 could use spell check on my workstation in the office and to my surprise it didn't work. I couldn't understand why so I did this on my home workstation which uses spellcheck just fine... rpm -qa | grep spell I found this list of packages.. aspell-0.50.2-78 aspell-devel-0.50.2-78 aspell-en-0.51.0-60 gnome-spell-1.0.4-SuSE.ulb.1 gtkspell-2.0.4-SuSE.ulb.1 gtkspell-devel-2.0.4-SuSE.ulb.1 ispell-3.2.06-266 ispell-american-3.2.06-266 ispell-british-3.2.06-266 mozilla-spellchecker-1.4-SuSE.ulb.1 The two packages that were not installed at work that I had at home were... aspell-devel-0.50.2-78 aspell-en-0.51.0-60 As soon as I installed them ..*bam*.. abiword could spell check on the office machine. So if ya'll have these installed then it should work. Check the packages you have installed against the list I have above and see how that works out. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.

Peter B Van Campen

18:59

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On Thursday 18 September 2003 01:34 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:

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rpm -qa | grep spell

I found this list of packages..

aspell-0.50.2-78 aspell-devel-0.50.2-78 aspell-en-0.51.0-60 gnome-spell-1.0.4-SuSE.ulb.1 gtkspell-2.0.4-SuSE.ulb.1 gtkspell-devel-2.0.4-SuSE.ulb.1 ispell-3.2.06-266 ispell-american-3.2.06-266 ispell-british-3.2.06-266 mozilla-spellchecker-1.4-SuSE.ulb.1

The two packages that were not installed at work that I had at home were...

aspell-devel-0.50.2-78 aspell-en-0.51.0-60

As soon as I installed them ..*bam*.. abiword could spell check on the office machine. So if ya'll have these installed then it should work. Check the packages you have installed against the list I have above and see how that works out.

Hi Ben, I added aspell-devel fron the 8.2 dvd but could not find the aspell-en. I found aspell-american. Abiword 1.04 (8.2default install) did NOT spell check before adding aspell-devel; but it does offer spell checking after installing it. BUT the spell check is in ERROR same as reported on the newer version == It says "spell checking completed" but it has ignored obviously mis-spelled words in the doc! Weird huh? PeterB -- -- Proud to use SuSE Linux, since 5.2 Loving using SuSE Linux 8.2 MyBlog http://vancampen.org/blog/ Nothing is as perfect as a Cultured Diamond There was never any Blood on a Cultured Diamond --

Ben Rosenberg

19:49

New subject: [SLE] Abiword Spelling

* Peter B Van Campen (peterb@vancampen.org) [030918 12:01]:

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On Thursday 18 September 2003 01:34 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:

I added aspell-devel fron the 8.2 dvd but could not find the aspell-en. I found aspell-american.

Abiword 1.04 (8.2default install) did NOT spell check before adding aspell-devel; but it does offer spell checking after installing it. BUT the spell check is in ERROR same as reported on the newer version == It says "spell checking completed" but it has ignored obviously mis-spelled words in the doc!

Weird huh?

Very. It must be something else because after syncing what was installed at work with what I had at home. Everything works. Very odd. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.

Peter B Van Campen

20:04

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On Thursday 18 September 2003 02:49 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:

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* Peter B Van Campen (peterb@vancampen.org) [030918 12:01]:

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On Thursday 18 September 2003 01:34 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:

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Abiword 1.04 (8.2default install) did NOT spell check before adding aspell-devel; but it does offer spell checking after installing it. BUT the spell check is in ERROR same as reported on the newer version == It says "spell checking completed" but it has ignored obviously mis-spelled words in the doc!

Weird huh?

Very.

It must be something else because after syncing what was installed at work with what I had at home. Everything works. Very odd.

I tried spell cking in KEdit again and it says== "ISpell could not be started. Please make sure you have ISpell properly configured and in your PATH." in the error box. Where is the path stmt? PeterB -- -- Proud to use SuSE Linux, since 5.2 Loving using SuSE Linux 8.2 MyBlog http://vancampen.org/blog/ Nothing is as perfect as a Cultured Diamond There was never any Blood on a Cultured Diamond --

Ben Rosenberg

20:15

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* Peter B Van Campen (peterb@vancampen.org) [030918 13:06]:

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Very.

It must be something else because after syncing what was installed at work with what I had at home. Everything works. Very odd.

I tried spell cking in KEdit again and it says== "ISpell could not be started. Please make sure you have ISpell properly configured and in your PATH." in the error box. Where is the path stmt?

I set my path statement in my .zshrc .. I don't know where the default is kept..I don't remember. I've overridden it for so long. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.

jalal

19 Sep 19 Sep

07:44

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Ben Rosenberg wrote:

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* Peter B Van Campen (peterb@vancampen.org) [030918 13:06]:

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Very.

It must be something else because after syncing what was installed at work with what I had at home. Everything works. Very odd.

I tried spell cking in KEdit again and it says== "ISpell could not be started. Please make sure you have ISpell properly configured and in your PATH." in the error box. Where is the path stmt?

I set my path statement in my .zshrc .. I don't know where the default is kept..I don't remember. I've overridden it for so long.

Do you have either of the directories: /usr/share/enchant/ispell/ or ~/.enchant/ispell/ My 'enchant' seems to be looking for them... -- GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E

Keith Powell

14:11

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This is a composite reply to save on bandwidth. Thanks to all who are offering advice or suggestions. In spite of much experimenting, I am still unable to get spell checking working in version2.0. Like others on the list, I get the message that the spelling check has been completed. So it looks as though it is not finding the dictionary. Ben, I have installed all the files you mentioned: aspell-0.50.2-78 aspell-devel-0.50.2-78 aspell-en-0.51.0-60 gnome-spell-1.0.4-SuSE.ulb.1 gtkspell-2.0.4-SuSE.ulb.1 gtkspell-devel-2.0.4-SuSE.ulb.1 ispell-3.2.06-266 ispell-american-3.2.06-266 ispell-british-3.2.06-266 mozilla-spellchecker-1.4-SuSE.ulb.1 James, I then installed the aspell-en dictionary from your site to try that instead of the one listed above . Jalal, you asked if we had either of the directories:

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/usr/share/enchant/ispell/ or ~/.enchant/ispell/ No! I only have: /usr/lib/enchant /usr/lib/enchant/libenchant-aspell.so.1 /usr/lib/enchant/libenchant-ispell.so.1 /usr/lib/enchant/libenchant-myspell.so.1 /usr/lib/libenchant.so.1.0.0 if it is of any help.

I have uninstalled version2 and replaced it with 1.99.6, and the spell checking works. As Enchant is used in version2 and not in version1.99.6, has made me wonder if that is causing the problem. But I may be wrong. Cheers Keith

Ben Rosenberg

15:26

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* jalal (the_jalal@fastmail.fm) [030919 00:47]:

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Ben Rosenberg wrote:

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* Peter B Van Campen (peterb@vancampen.org) [030918 13:06]:

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Very.

It must be something else because after syncing what was installed at work with what I had at home. Everything works. Very odd.

I tried spell cking in KEdit again and it says== "ISpell could not be started. Please make sure you have ISpell properly configured and in your PATH." in the error box. Where is the path stmt?

I set my path statement in my .zshrc .. I don't know where the default is kept..I don't remember. I've overridden it for so long.

Do you have either of the directories: /usr/share/enchant/ispell/ or ~/.enchant/ispell/

My 'enchant' seems to be looking for them...

Nope. Neither of those specifically exist on my machine but spell checking works. I'm not sure why they are being asked for on yours if your using the ULB packages. Sorry I can't help more...if something Gnome2 doesn't work then I usually have to ask a question here. I'm so out of date with this Gnome stuff. :/ -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.

Keith Powell

20 Sep 20 Sep

14:48

New subject: [SLE] Abiword Spelling (Partially solved)

I have partially solved the problem of Abiword2 not spell checking. The previous Abiword2.0 installations had been with APT from the mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de mirror. Wondering if the files may be faulty (which I doubted), I uninstalled Abiword and Enchant, downloaded the Abiword-gnome2.0 and Enchant .rpms from Sourceforge and installed them. On installing I got the error messages that there were dependency problems because fontconfig >=2.1 libfribidi0 >=0.10.4 libgnomeprint22 >=2.2.0 libgnomeprintui22 >=2.2.0 were missing. They weren't so I ignored them. Abiword2 now spell checks correctly. However when I close the program, it crashes with the error message: Abiword (process #) has caused a fatal error (Aborted) The process number is different each time. For example it has been 2025, 2085, 2089. The next test will be to uninstall Abiword and Enchant again, and replace them with those which I will download directly from James' site. The ones I installed from Sourceforge, may not be compatible with SuSE - I don't know. I have tried the -gnome version rather than James' version on Sourceforge, as I wanted to change as much as possible for the test. I thought I would give a progress report in case it helps anyone. Cheers Keith

James Ogley

18 Sep 18 Sep

21:39

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I added aspell-devel fron the 8.2 dvd but could not find the aspell-en. I found aspell-american.

You can get aspell-en from my site, or by apt -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

James Hatridge

20 Sep 20 Sep

11:12

Hi all.... One thing I miss on Abiword vs. WP 4.2 is the wild-cards when spell checking. To be bunt Abiword's spell checker is useless for me. When it works I get a short (very short) list of similar words. If the correct word is not there it's "sorry charly". If I'm looking to spell "cat" correctly (for example) in WP 4.2 I can give "*at". I will get a long list of every word ending in "at". Or if I know that the word has "r" "o" "ct" in it I can ask foe "*r*o*ct" and get again a long list which will have "Project" in it. IF this was added to Abiword it would be as good or even better than WP. Later JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ BayerWulf Linux System # 129656 The Recycled Beowulf Project Looking for throw-away or obsolete computers and parts to recycle into a Linux super computer Viel Feind -- Viel Ehr' Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/collection

James Ogley

18 Sep 18 Sep

21:38

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aspell-devel-0.50.2-78 aspell-en-0.51.0-60

Looking at the contents of aspell and aspell-devel, SuSE have packaged the aspell package correctly (ie there's nothing in the devel package that should be in the main package), so I can't believe it's aspell-devel that sorted it, I rather suspect it's having a valid aspell dictionary set (in this case aspell-en) installed. -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

Ben Rosenberg

22:03

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* James Ogley (james@usr-local-bin.org) [030918 14:40]:

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aspell-devel-0.50.2-78 aspell-en-0.51.0-60

Looking at the contents of aspell and aspell-devel, SuSE have packaged the aspell package correctly (ie there's nothing in the devel package that should be in the main package), so I can't believe it's aspell-devel that sorted it, I rather suspect it's having a valid aspell dictionary set (in this case aspell-en) installed.

Oh I know. I was just saying that these two packages were the diff's between the two machines and I installed them to be in sync. Now everything is good and Abiword is pretty damn nice...and quick too. :) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.

James Ogley

19 Sep 19 Sep

06:39

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Oh I know. I was just saying that these two packages were the diff's between the two machines and I installed them to be in sync. Now everything is good and Abiword is pretty damn nice...and quick too. :)

You're not wrong about it being nice, and fast... Personally, I can't remember the last time I used OOo... -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

Ben Rosenberg

06:46

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* James Ogley (james@usr-local-bin.org) [030918 23:41]:

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Oh I know. I was just saying that these two packages were the diff's between the two machines and I installed them to be in sync. Now everything is good and Abiword is pretty damn nice...and quick too. :)

You're not wrong about it being nice, and fast...

Personally, I can't remember the last time I used OOo...

Interesting. I sent an email after this saying that Abiword wigged out on a 16 page .doc file that had no macros. A doc file created and saved in OO so not much weird MS stuff going on with it. I just scp'ed the doc home to work on it some more and decided after seeing your email to give Abiword another go around. It preformed just fine changing the fonts ..which it bombed on last time. hmm.. very weird. Don't have a clue why it would do that. Do you by change? To many fonts? -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.

James Ogley

06:58

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Interesting. I sent an email after this saying that Abiword wigged out on a 16 page .doc file that had no macros. A doc file created and saved in OO so not much weird MS stuff going on with it. I just scp'ed the doc home to work on it some more and decided after seeing your email to give Abiword another go around. It preformed just fine changing the fonts ..which it bombed on last time. hmm.. very weird. Don't have a clue why it would do that. Do you by change? To many fonts?

Possibly, when it bombs, my usual response is to file a bug report, but where it's font related, I'm slightly wary, as my packages include a kludge patch to get around the fact that SuSE 8.2's fontconfig is not upgradable in a sane way (use --force? Eew, no thanks!) and is quite an old version. So, if you can live with it like that till 9.0 when I can remove that patch, and we have a decent, up-to-date, upgradable fontconfig, and then see if it still happens, that would be great... :) -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

Keith Powell

20 Sep 20 Sep

15:54

New subject: [SLE] Abiword Spelling (SOLVED!!!)

I have installed Abiword2.0, Enchant, and Enchant-dev from James' site and spell checking works. I couldn't get it to work without Enchant-dev installed. There were no errors on installation, and there are no crashes. The previous installation was uninstalled first. I hope this news may be of interest to others who can't get it to spell check. Cheers Keith

Franklin Maurer

21:38

New subject: [SLE] Abiword Spelling (SOLVED!!!)

On Saturday 20 September 2003 11:54 am, Keith Powell wrote:

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I have installed Abiword2.0, Enchant, and Enchant-dev from James' site and spell checking works. I couldn't get it to work without Enchant-dev installed.

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I hope this news may be of interest to others who can't get it to spell check.

Thanks, installing enchant -dev fixed it for me as well. -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.2 Pro

Keith Powell

21 Sep 21 Sep

07:51

New subject: [SLE] Abiword Spelling (SOLVED!!!)

On Saturday 20 Sep 2003 10:38 pm, Franklin Maurer wrote:

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On Saturday 20 September 2003 11:54 am, Keith Powell wrote:

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I have installed Abiword2.0, Enchant, and Enchant-dev from James' site and spell checking works. I couldn't get it to work without Enchant-dev installed.

I hope this news may be of interest to others who can't get it to spell check.

Thanks, installing enchant -dev fixed it for me as well.

Pleased that the solution which worked for me, has worked for you as well. Cheers Keith

William Westfall

15:52

New subject: [SLE] Abiword Spelling (SOLVED!!!)

Thanks Man! Abiword is awesome On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 01:51, Keith Powell wrote:

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On Saturday 20 Sep 2003 10:38 pm, Franklin Maurer wrote:

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On Saturday 20 September 2003 11:54 am, Keith Powell wrote:

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I have installed Abiword2.0, Enchant, and Enchant-dev from James' site and spell checking works. I couldn't get it to work without Enchant-dev installed.

I hope this news may be of interest to others who can't get it to spell check.

Thanks, installing enchant -dev fixed it for me as well.

Pleased that the solution which worked for me, has worked for you as well.

Cheers

Keith

Giorgos Maravelias

20 Sep 20 Sep

10:35

New subject: YOU stores

Hallo !!! Does anybody knows where stores YOU the update files ? :) Giorgos Maravelias

Felipe Alfaro Solana

11:20

New subject: [SLE] YOU stores

On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 12:35, Giorgos Maravelias wrote:

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Hallo !!!

Does anybody knows where stores YOU the update files ?

/var/lib/Yast2/you

jalal

18 Sep 18 Sep

16:22

New subject: [SLE] Abiword Spelling

Keith Powell wrote:

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On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 9:20 am, James Ogley wrote:

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Let me tell you what settings I have enabled that relate to spell-checking...

Tools -> Spelling -> Auto spellcheck Tools -> Spelling -> Spelling Options

|-> Check spelling as you type |-> Ignore [all checked]

Tools -> Language -> English (UK)

I have the same enabled, and the same language selcted. I have also tried unchecking "Check spelling as you type" and doing a manual spell check - it still just says that the spell checking is complete.

I'll continue trying to see if it is a problem here, although it's the same on two installations :-(

Thanks

Keith

I have the same problem. When I run enchant from the command line, it tells me that it cannot "create the dictionay"... whatever that means. There seems to be little or no documentation on enchant, altho I'm googling for it now. Trouble with searching for 'enchant' and 'spell' is I get a long list of fantasy games... :( -- GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E

James Ogley

16:41

New subject: [SLE] Abiword Spelling

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Trouble with searching for 'enchant' and 'spell' is I get a long list of fantasy games... :(

If you just put "enchant" i n- the right page is second in the list -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

jalal

17:16

New subject: [SLE] Abiword Spelling

James Ogley wrote:

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Trouble with searching for 'enchant' and 'spell' is I get a long list of fantasy games... :(

If you just put "enchant" i n- the right page is second in the list

Unfortunately - not. No help at all. Nada. On my system, enchant is looking for either: /usr/share/enchant/ispell or ~/.enchant/ispell Neither of which exist, so it returns an error. Do you have either of these directories? If yes, what do they have in them and do you have any idea how they got created? -- GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E

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