On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 8:03 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote:
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> Sunday 07 December 2003 12:04 pm, Keith Powell wrote:
> > Has anyone managed to get KWord spell checking working in Mandrake9.2?
> > Whenever I try to spell check, KWord just crashes.
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> I just installed K-Office to test this. The spelling check (manual) crashes
> when I intentionally misspell words but the auto correction does underline
> them. ASpell didn't work at all, I switched to the Canadian English
> accented dictionary and selected I-Spell. It all worked as expected. BTW
> don't forget that K-Office in 9.2 is a beta package. There may be glitches.
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> > a) If so, which dictionary do you use?
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> Answered above. Did you select the same dictionary as in K-Control? K menu,
> Configuration, Components, Spell Checker? I didn't that's the one (A-Spell)
> that crashes without error when I do a manual check. Auto correction is
> turned on here.
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> > b) Can anyone please confirm if English-GB spell checking works
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> The only difference between that one and Canadian English w/accents should
> be the accents. I'll start it from a terminal and try it...
>
> OK, I tried to crash it, _honest!_ I switched the dictionary to GB -w
> accents and hit auto-correction. Nothing but a bunch of stops for input. I
> kept telling it to "Ignore All" so that it wouldn't correct anything 'cause
> the "document" I was checking was the load output from running k-word from
> a terminal. I can send you the text if you like but it seems rather
> pointless. I also switched to A-Spell and ran it again, same result.
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Hello Charlie.
Many thanks for all the help you are giving me. I really do appreciate it.
This gets "curiouser and curiouser" as Alice said.
I did exactly as you had done, but all it did was to crash.
Since then I have been doing other things on the computer and have tried it
again. Now it doesn't crash! However.
It spell checks, but I can't get it to differentiate between British and
American spelling (it accepts both color and colour). Whatever I set the
KWord spelling settings to, as soon as I clicked on OK to exit the settings
box, it reverts to "English Dictionary, Keeps the encoding I have just set,
and International Ispell Client". I can't get it to save the new settings.
Then I renamed all the american files in /usr/lib/ispell, just leaving the
british ones, to try to make ISpell only see the British part of the
ISpell_en dictionary. I assumed that the dictionary was a combined one and
the spell checker just chose which country's spellings it needed. But that
makes no difference - it still accepts both spellings.
That is as far as I have got. A start, but not very far.
Hope this explanation hasn't been too garbled!
Cheers
Keith
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