I've not messed much with Moz. in awhile, because it lacked some things I needed/wanted and so stayed with KMail. I am impressed with this new release, however, it STILL doesn't have a spell checker! Now, that's IGNORANT! Fred -- "DRM.. Digitally Retarded Media. That's exactly what it is - content that cannot reach its full potential because of artificial restraints." -Paul Rickard
No. They don't ship one yet. It was suppose to be done for 1.3 but it wasn't. A quick glance over at http://www.mozdev.org/projects.html shows a spellchecker available for Mozilla. You can find it here.... http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/ I found the spellchecker and serveral hundred other addon's and projects for Mozilla here. Cheers! * Fred A. Miller (fmiller@lightlink.com) [030314 15:34]: ->I've not messed much with Moz. in awhile, because it lacked some things ->I needed/wanted and so stayed with KMail. I am impressed with this new ->release, however, it STILL doesn't have a spell checker! Now, that's ->IGNORANT! -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.
Ben Rosenberg
No. They don't ship one yet. It was suppose to be done for 1.3 but it wasn't. A quick glance over at http://www.mozdev.org/projects.html shows a spellchecker available for Mozilla. You can find it here....
Why do Mozilla, and other applications, need their own spell checkers? Would it not be more in the *nix spirit to interface to, and use, the 'system wide' [iap]spell checker(s)?
* Graham Murray (graham@gmurray.org.uk) [030315 16:41]:
->Ben Rosenberg
Ben Rosenberg wrote:
No. They don't ship one yet. It was suppose to be done for 1.3 but it wasn't. A quick glance over at http://www.mozdev.org/projects.html shows a spellchecker available for Mozilla. You can find it here....
<snip> Has anyone gotten this spell checker to work? I was unable to get it to work with the SuSE version of Mozilla 1.3 , so I downloaded the tar.gz from Mozilla.org, re-installed the spell checker and still have not had any luck. I am trying it in SuSE 8.0 Pro. Have not, yet, tried it on my 8.1 box. D.C. p.s. Yes, I am only wanting this to catch my many typos. Large fingers make for lots of mistakes.
Darrell Cormier wrote:
Has anyone gotten this spell checker to work? I was unable to get it to work with the SuSE version of Mozilla 1.3 , so I downloaded the tar.gz from Mozilla.org, re-installed the spell checker and still have not had any luck. I am trying it in SuSE 8.0 Pro. Have not, yet, tried it on my 8.1 box.
Hi Darrell, out of interest, I've just installed the spell checker and it seems to be working. It's suggesting I change "Cormier" for "Wormier" ;-) I installed my Mozilla from the 1.3 tar.gz and installed the spell checker as root. FYI: satellite:/usr/local/mozilla13 # find . | egrep spell ./components/libmyspell.so ./components/myspell ./components/myspell/en-US.aff ./components/myspell/en-US.dic ./components/libspellchecker.so ./components/spellchecker.xpt HTH sjb
sjb wrote: <snip>
Hi Darrell,
out of interest, I've just installed the spell checker and it seems to be working.
It's suggesting I change "Cormier" for "Wormier" ;-)
I installed my Mozilla from the 1.3 tar.gz and installed the spell checker as root.
<snip> Thanks for the info. I was trying to install it as the normal user and not as root. It worked with root. Don't know why I didn't think of that beforehand. Having a brain dead day I guess. Thanks again, Darrell Cormier
On Saturday 15 March 2003 00:31, Fred A. Miller wrote:
I've not messed much with Moz. in awhile, because it lacked some things I needed/wanted and so stayed with KMail. I am impressed with this new release, however, it STILL doesn't have a spell checker! Now, that's IGNORANT!
I've never been able to understand why spelling is the only thing considered important in emails. For example, the above message is - as far as I can see - correctly spelled, but the grammar is completely wrong. A noun isn't modified by a verb, so a spell checker would check spells not spelling. 'awhile' is a correctly spelled word but it's an adverb. So a spelling checker wouldn't help with the above message. I'm not trying to flame here, I'm just curious as to why people don't scream for grammar checkers. I make frequent grammar mistakes in hastily edited emails, so I would find such a function very useful. A frequent error I make is to write a sentence with a subject in plural, change my mind and make it singular, and then forget to make some consistency alteration. I would find a function for correcting such mistakes at least as valuable as a spelling checker. Are there any programs capable of doing that?
On Saturday 15 March 2003 00:09, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 15 March 2003 00:31, Fred A. Miller wrote:
I've not messed much with Moz. in awhile, because it lacked some things I needed/wanted and so stayed with KMail. I am impressed with this new release, however, it STILL doesn't have a spell checker! Now, that's IGNORANT!
I've never been able to understand why spelling is the only thing considered important in emails. For example, the above message is - as far as I can see - correctly spelled, but the grammar is completely wrong. A noun isn't modified by a verb, so a spell checker would check spells not spelling. 'awhile' is a correctly spelled word but it's an adverb.
So a spelling checker wouldn't help with the above message.
I'm not trying to flame here, I'm just curious as to why people don't scream for grammar checkers. I make frequent grammar mistakes in hastily edited emails, so I would find such a function very useful.
A frequent error I make is to write a sentence with a subject in plural, change my mind and make it singular, and then forget to make some consistency alteration. I would find a function for correcting such mistakes at least as valuable as a spelling checker.
Are there any programs capable of doing that? Andres,
I agree with you, as English is not my native tongue, I am likely to make both spelling and grammar errors. In M$ Word there is a spell and grammar checker, but very often I odubt the results of that grammar checker as reliable. (Using Office 97). As I need to use it to correct errors I have no knowledge off, I need to rely on it. I would welcome a spell and grammar checker I can rely on. In my own native language a spell checker would be sufficient, just to catch typo's. Is that perhaps why native English speakers don't desire a grammar checker? -- Frits Wüthrich Pentaxianado
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