Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking
On Saturday 13 Mar 2004 2:35 pm, Charlie wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:11 am, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- I have just tried running aspell in a terminal and manually checking a text file. It works correctly, so it would appear that there is nothing wrong with the Aspell installation. I'll carry on trying to find what's causing the problem. Others don't have it with KWord, and I only get it with the KOffice programs, so presumably it's something to do with my set-up Very odd!! Thanks for the help. Keith Further to my last experimentations I discovered the following In KWord Settings/configure/spelling/ DictionaryASpell default Encoding US-ASCII ClientInternational Ispell Consider run together words as spelling errors enable Show Misspelled words in Document And the automagic spell checker works. But what I did was changed the Client to ASpell I think, and it returned to Ispell So maybe you have to work in there and it will set itself up? So everything on the left click menu is now working. Very strange. In Kpresenter I had some problems, leaving it as default I discovered that on auto spell check it marked the words, but unfortunately brought up the spell checker and froze the screen. I couldn't get out without logging out and coming back in. Then I placed ASpell as the Client, and it went through all the processes as with KWord. But the spell checking window flashed onto the screen and then off again. So I again selected International Ispell as the Client and it went back to the Dictionary setting as ISpell Default instead of ASpell default and worked perfectly. I went back to KWord and it was as above I had left it with ASpell default as Dictionary and worked without fault. So it would appear that you have to work round with the KOffice applications in Whatever KOffice App/settings/configure/spelling/ and take what works, changing things round a bit so that they can look for what is needed. Hope this is not to confusing and helps. Charlie. Hello Charlie. Thanks for your suggestions, and sorry for the delay in replying. Things have been rather (no, VERY!) hectic here lately, and I haven't had time to do any further tests. I have now been able to have another look at it, and the best I can do is to have the Configuration/KDE/components/Spell checking set to: Dictionary: Aspell default Encoding: ISO8859-15 Client: Aspell and the KWord spell checking set to: Dictionary: Aspell default Encoding: ISO8859-15 Client: International Ispell. (If I change it to Aspell, it immediately goes back to Ispell). With these settings, I can spell check and incorrectly spelt words are corrected. However! Although American spellings are marked, the dictionary ignores them. (So, both color and colour are accepted). It's not perfect, but isn't too bad. I think I will leave it at this for the time being, as I don't know what else to try. If you come up with anything else, I'd like to hear about it. Many thanks again to you and Anne. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:27 pm, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom spellings), I would very much like to hear from you and find out exactly how you did it! Many thanks Keith If you type aspell into a terminal, there are many options that might help you configure it. Does Aspell work in OO.o or any other program or application that uses it. If so then it doesn't require any configuration I would imagine, unless there is a way to direct it into a programs path? Sorry, Can't think of anything else. CXharlie. -- A steady wind scours the autumn moon From a stagnant pool, From the crystal spring every place pure now Just as it is. Why, then, does karma yet coil and bind? - Miao Yin (376-380) This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking
On Friday 12 Mar 2004 8:26 am, Charlie wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:27 pm, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom spellings), I would very much like to hear from you and find out exactly how you did it! Many thanks Keith Did it through the install for me. You have to have Aspell installed. Does auto spellcheck as well as manual. That is in Linux Mandrake 9.2 Charlie Thanks for the reply, Charlie. I have got Aspell installed. Unfortunately, I still can't find what could be causing the problem. KWord marks the words as being incorrectly spelt, but won't call the dictionary. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking
On Friday 12 Mar 2004 7:37 pm, Charlie wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:27 pm, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom spellings), I would very much like to hear from you and find out exactly how you did it! Many thanks Keith If you type aspell into a terminal, there are many options that might help you configure it. Does Aspell work in OO.o or any other program or application that uses it. If so then it doesn't require any configuration I would imagine, unless there is a way to direct it into a programs path? Sorry, Can't think of anything else. CXharlie. I have just tried running aspell in a terminal and manually checking a text file. It works correctly, so it would appear that there is nothing wrong with the Aspell installation. I'll carry on trying to find what's causing the problem. Others don't have it with KWord, and I only get it with the KOffice programs, so presumably it's something to do with my set-up Very odd!! Thanks for the help. Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 08:46 am, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- On Friday 12 Mar 2004 8:26 am, Charlie wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:27 pm, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom spellings), I would very much like to hear from you and find out exactly how you did it! Many thanks Keith Did it through the install for me. You have to have Aspell installed. Does auto spellcheck as well as manual. That is in Linux Mandrake 9.2 Charlie Thanks for the reply, Charlie. I have got Aspell installed. Unfortunately, I still can't find what could be causing the problem. KWord marks the words as being incorrectly spelt, but won't call the dictionary. Cheers Keith I have given you a bum steer here. I don't actually use KWord, so hope you will forgive me. Working with normal spell check in KWord, the dictionary comes up with suggestions through Aspell, but I just tried with autodetect, and it certainly comes up with marking the word, but the minute I left click on the error, the desktop freezes and I have to Ctrl + Alt to get it to unfreeze. In actual fact Ctrl + Alt will then bring up the dictionary. Hang on. Right clicking on the misspelled word brings up a menu, then left clicking on Check this word's spelling does nothing but directly after pressing Ctrl + Alt brings up the dictionary just for that word alone. But it doesn't move on to the next. This also works by mouse wheel clicking on the misspelled word, the Ctrl + Alt. So KWord here will only work on the manual spell check. Sorry about that. I thought that because it marked the word as misspelled it would also correct it as normal. Charlie. -- A steady wind scours the autumn moon From a stagnant pool, From the crystal spring every place pure now Just as it is. Why, then, does karma yet coil and bind? - Miao Yin (376-380) This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:11 am, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- I have just tried running aspell in a terminal and manually checking a text file. It works correctly, so it would appear that there is nothing wrong with the Aspell installation. I'll carry on trying to find what's causing the problem. Others don't have it with KWord, and I only get it with the KOffice programs, so presumably it's something to do with my set-up Very odd!! Thanks for the help. Keith Further to my last experimentations I discovered the following In KWord Settings/configure/spelling/ Dictionary ASpell default EncodingUS-ASCII Client International Ispell Consider run together words as spelling errors enable Show Misspelled words in Document And the automagic spell checker works. But what I did was changed the Client to ASpell I think, and it returned to Ispell So maybe you have to work in there and it will set itself up? So everything on the left click menu is now working. Very strange. In Kpresenter I had some problems, leaving it as default I discovered that on auto spell check it marked the words, but unfortunately brought up the spell checker and froze the screen. I couldn't get out without logging out and coming back in. Then I placed ASpell as the Client, and it went through all the processes as with KWord. But the spell checking window flashed onto the screen and then off again. So I again selected International Ispell as the Client and it went back to the Dictionary setting as ISpell Default instead of ASpell default and worked perfectly. I went back to KWord and it was as above I had left it with ASpell default as Dictionary and worked without fault. So it would appear that you have to work round with the KOffice applications in Whatever KOffice App/settings/configure/spelling/ and take what works, changing things round a bit so that they can look for what is needed. Hope this is not to confusing and helps. Charlie. -- A steady wind scours the autumn moon From a stagnant pool, From the crystal spring every place pure now Just as it is. Why, then, does karma yet coil and bind? - Miao Yin (376-380) This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KWord spell checking
I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom spellings), I would very much like to hear from you and find out exactly how you did it! Many thanks Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:27, Keith Powell wrote: I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom spellings), I would very much like to hear from you and find out exactly how you did it! Many thanks Keith Keith, I'm still in 9.1, but it works fine here. I don't remember any specific problems. Have you got aspell installed? My settings are: Dictionary ASpell Default EncodingISO 8859-15 Client Aspell Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAUF/QkFAvMr/nNX8RAjEfAJ9Cehjz0ZKK/gj03ZynoWfhG22iNACfWAMh KyiOluFxhHxqJGLi/3whsH0= =mIDT -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking
On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 12:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:27, Keith Powell wrote: I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom spellings), I would very much like to hear from you and find out exactly how you did it! Many thanks Keith Keith, I'm still in 9.1, but it works fine here. I don't remember any specific problems. Have you got aspell installed? My settings are: DictionaryASpell Default Encoding ISO 8859-15 ClientAspell Anne Anne. Thanks for your prompt reply. I do have Aspell installed. Kword started with the spelling settings of Dictionary: English ISO: 8859-1 Client: International Ispell I changed the settings to the ones you gave me and typed a few words, some with spelling mistakes. When I tried to spell check, KWord crashed! On restarting, it had defaulted back to the settings I gave at the beginning of this reply. Nothing happens when I try to spell check using these settings. Ispell is installed. I have tried many combinations of Dictionary, ISO, and Client, but it always starts with the default settings, rather than the ones I have changed it to. Most combinations just don't work, but some make it crash. Very peculiar! Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 March 2004 13:54, Keith Powell wrote: On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 12:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Keith, I'm still in 9.1, but it works fine here. I don't remember any specific problems. Have you got aspell installed? My settings are: Dictionary ASpell Default EncodingISO 8859-15 Client Aspell Anne Anne. Thanks for your prompt reply. I do have Aspell installed. Kword started with the spelling settings of Dictionary: English ISO: 8859-1 Client: International Ispell I changed the settings to the ones you gave me and typed a few words, some with spelling mistakes. When I tried to spell check, KWord crashed! On restarting, it had defaulted back to the settings I gave at the beginning of this reply. Nothing happens when I try to spell check using these settings. Ispell is installed. I have tried many combinations of Dictionary, ISO, and Client, but it always starts with the default settings, rather than the ones I have changed it to. Most combinations just don't work, but some make it crash. Very peculiar! Very odd indeed! Have you tried changing the settings, then exiting, in the hope that they are saved? After a crash things do tend to revert to the settings when they last closed down properly, so that fits the pattern. Apart from that, I don't have any suggestions. I've looked again, and there doesn't seem to be anything more that would affect the ability to run the spellchecker - all the other settings are just options. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAULTKkFAvMr/nNX8RAg5MAJ9rQMUyOTXOqj05iaL40FeKSmHCFwCeLBpi izZ5aynW3CKSRXhCpkfSS34= =+i+e -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 11 March 2004 13:54, Keith Powell wrote: On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 12:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Keith, I'm still in 9.1, but it works fine here. I don't remember any specific problems. Have you got aspell installed? My settings are: Dictionary ASpell Default Encoding ISO 8859-15 Client Aspell Anne Anne. Thanks for your prompt reply. I do have Aspell installed. Kword started with the spelling settings of Dictionary: English ISO: 8859-1 Client: International Ispell I changed the settings to the ones you gave me and typed a few words, some with spelling mistakes. When I tried to spell check, KWord crashed! On restarting, it had defaulted back to the settings I gave at the beginning of this reply. Nothing happens when I try to spell check using these settings. Ispell is installed. I have tried many combinations of Dictionary, ISO, and Client, but it always starts with the default settings, rather than the ones I have changed it to. Most combinations just don't work, but some make it crash. Very peculiar! Very odd indeed! Have you tried changing the settings, then exiting, in the hope that they are saved? After a crash things do tend to revert to the settings when they last closed down properly, so that fits the pattern. Anne I have just tried it again, changing the settings to the ones you use. I then exited the program and restarted it. Dictionary was still Aspell default, and ISO was still 8859-15. But the Client had changed back to International Ispell. Trying to spell check with these settings caused KWord to crash. I then restarted it and the settings it came up with were ASpell default, 8895-15, International Ispell. So I changed the client again to Aspell and clicked OK. Immediately opening the Spell Checking menu again, and the client had reverted to International Ispell. Just to try to cover everything, I did the same but clicked on Accept and then OK. It tells me that the font Symbol isn't installed, but I can't think that has any bearing on the problem. As I said earlier, I have ASpell installed and have no problems with KMail (which I understand uses it), or Abiword. However, KSpread and KPresenter both crash when I try to spell check in them. As Alice said, Curiouser and curiouser! Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:27 pm, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom spellings), I would very much like to hear from you and find out exactly how you did it! Many thanks Keith Did it through the install for me. You have to have Aspell installed. Does auto spellcheck as well as manual. That is in Linux Mandrake 9.2 Charlie -- Though we've been dwelling together, I don't know his name: Going along accepting the flow, Just being thus, Even the eminent sages since antiquity Don't know him. How could the hasty ordinary type Presume to understand? - Shitou This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
