James Ogley wrote:
When I try to run the spellchecker with abiword 1.0.4, I get a message saying it can't find a dictionary. I have ispell installed, so there should be a dictionary installed.
Same problem here ...
In AbiWord 1.0.x, you need abispell, which you can get from http://sf.net/projects/abiword
Alternatively, you could upgrade to the 2.0 beta (1.99.2 is the latest) from www.usr-local-bin.org/abiword.php - it's pretty rock-solid for me, and introduces a whole raft of features not in 1.0 such as tables.
Getting a spellchecker for a wordprocessor is a GOOD thing, but getting several text apps (especially the email package) to use the same dictionary appears not to be a priority with developers :-(( This is written on Mozilla 1.21. My Abiword is 1.04. I use it for most things. I use Open Office when Abiword isn't enough. Lyx is being tested. I miss not having CoolEdit on SuSE 8.x because it did such nice text preparation for input to VariCAD (drafting package). All four text app should be using one common dictionary, so it shouldn't be an internal component of any one of them. Where does the newest Abiword take me with respect to a common dictionary? This SuSE 8.2 box was the "testing" machine, but it works so nicely that I started doing almost all of my office work on it. Now I avoid wild experiments w/o good recommendations from suse-linux-e.