Spell checking in the new evolution
Yoav Avitzour
avitzour at Princeton.EDU
Wed Jun 18 16:45:26 GMT 2003
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 16:41, Auke Kok wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 22:39, Yoav Avitzour wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 16:12, Auke Kok wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 01:25, Yoav Avitzour wrote:
> > > > I found out that while gnome-spell version in the moonbase is 0.5,
> > > > version 1.0.4 is already out there. Bumping the version seemed to work
> > > > (plus a minor adjustment to the source-url, diff below), and now
> > > > evolution does not give the error message, and the spell-check-document
> > > > menu option is availabe, however, it does not check spelling. Actually,
> > > > it does absolutly nothing, with no error messages what so ever...
> > > >
> > >
> > > Well the update is what you want, after I updated gnome-spell on my box
> > > I got dutch spell checking working immediately!
> > >
> > > however....
> > >
> > > I only had dutch, and have not been able to enable english or anything
> > > else yet. I had the aspell-nl package installed tho, but installing the
> > > aspell-en package didn't make any difference (yet)
> > >
> > > I'll keep trying, meanwhile I pushed the gnome-spell update.
> > >
> >
> > The answer is simply to enable the language in the composer preferences
> > menu. Than it works.
>
> nope, because only dutch is listed there and english will not pop up in
> there at all!!! (whines)
>
hmmm... I just linned aspell-es to try it and spanish immediately
appeared there. I also re-linned aspell earlier today, so maybe that
helped.
Yoav
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