On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 13:25:15 +0000 (UTC)
James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> Also, while we are at it, my seamonkey marks words as mispelled,
> but there is not a "spellchecker" function to fix the mistakes,
> so what am I missing in seamonkey ( I run lxde, if that matters).
> If it's an addon I need, suggests as to the best (most complete)
> usa english would be welcome information. An unabridged english
> dictionary, even if from the right side of the pond, would be keen
> to integrate into seamonkey.
> 
> Q? (if my memory is correct?)

I've had to move dictionary stuff to the far back burner for now,
thanks to too much real life stuff.

I don't think there exist unabridged spellchecking dictionaries, but
it's possible to create a pretty big one.  See
<http://wordlist.aspell.net/>, the "create a customized wordlist"
link.  ("Emeried" is in the wordlist for "SCOWL size" >=80.  You can
check to see what words are in what lists by using the "check if a word
is in SCOWL" link.)  If you download a Hunspell dictionary, you should
just be able to unzip it (both the .aff and .dic files)
into /usr/share/hunspell -- that should make it available system-wide.

How to get SeaMonkey to use a new dictionary, I'm not certain.
With Firefox, you right-click in a text box and choose an option
under "Languages".  Maybe this extension would help:
<https://addons.mozilla.org/seamonkey/addon/dictionary-switcher/>.

Firefox 39 and some soon-to-be-released SeaMonkey should come with a
newer en_US dictionary, per
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1133363>.  But I don't
think it's possible to use the bundled dictionaries with Gentoo's
built-from-source Mozilla packages.  Maybe seamonkey-bin would do it.


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