Re: Help on Spell-Checking

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Ryan Pavlik wrote:

> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:47:11 -0500
> From: Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net>
> To: "Renaux, Thierry" <tre@msc-ge.com>
> Cc: "'abiword-user@abisource.com'" <abiword-user@abisource.com>
> Subject: Re: Help on Spell-Checking
>
>
> Renaux, Thierry wrote:
>
> >I am new to Abiword and using ABIWORD 2.2.9 under MacOSX 10.3.9. So
> >far, so good, works really fine. I have downloaded the French
> >dictionary (linked in ABIWORD. Got 2 files : french.hash and
> >french.something) I would like to know where to place these files in
> >order to perform french spell-checking. Documentation says to place
> >these files aside american.hash, but I could not find this file on my
> >system !

> AbiWord should use your AppleSpell dictionaries and the french
> dictionaries should not be necessary. You can use "Set Language" under
> the Tools menu with your document selected in order to set it for French
> spell checking.

> >It is also impossible to specify the dictionary location from the
> >Preference Menu, buttons cannot be activated. Also a problem with the
> >paper size. Abiword seems to be unable to remember my settings and I
> >have to set the paper size each and every time I open my documents.

> You will need to edit your normal.abt - search the list archives for
> information how to do this. I do not use a Mac, so I do not know where
> the normal.abt should be placed on that system.

Did you mean normal.awt or has something changed?

- Alan Horkan.
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Received on Thu Oct 13 15:59:00 2005