Re: grammar check not functioning

Lance W. Haverkamp wrote:
> on 02/07/2007 03:58 PM Ryan Pavlik said the following:
>
>> Lance W. Haverkamp wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Using MEPIS Linux (Ubuntu packages), I've installed Abiword, Abiword
>>> plugins, Aspell & link-grammar (with the appropriate English
>>> dictionaries.
>>>
>>> As far as I can tell the grammar check is not working. I looked in FAQ
>>> & searched the WIKI, but see nothing on grammar-check. Spell-check is,
>>> but I see nothing to indicate grammar-check is functioning. How do I:
>>>
>>> *verify installation
>>> *test it
>>> *start it (there is a spell-check button, but no gramm-check button)
>>>
>>>
>> Ubuntu does not package the grammar-check plugin. If you want it, you
>> will have to re-build the package and edit the debian control files to
>> not disable the grammar check plugin.
>>
>> Ryan
>>
>
> Thanks, are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for that, 'cause
> I have no idea how to do that. I'll have to find where (in Ubuntu) to
> complain about this.
>
>
> Lance
>
>
There are no such instructions, sorry - I don't have the time to
dedicate to preparing them and it would be the responsibility of Ubuntu
to ensure their packages satisfy user needs if an upstream solution is
availabe. One alternative might be to try the Autopackage, I'm not sure
if it includes grammar checking or not. You would file a bug for Ubuntu
at www.launchpad.net - I would suggest the solution of creating an
additional package from the AbiWord source tree to install grammar
checking, since it does exact a performance penalty and so not all users
would want it.

Thanks for using AbiWord!

Ryan

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