All the words are underlined with red line. I keep a real dictionary at my side, so I know that not all my words were spelled wrong :)
And when I use "Check Spelling" it shows all my words are mispelled and doesn't even show any possible replacements (other than "?"). I installed abiword via NetBSD pkgsrc (using NetBSD pkgsrc editors/abiword/Makefile,v 1.44). This Abiword source is patched. The patches are available via CVS: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/editors/abiword/ Abiword via pkgsrc depends on NetBSD package: ispell-base-[0-9]*:../../textproc/ispell-base I have ispell-base-3.1.20nb1. International Ispell Version 3.1.20 10/10/95 My default ispell uses American English. And ispell works. (I have used abiword off and on for over two years; I can't rememeber if I noticed this before. I believe it may be NetBSD related; I did ask at a NetBSD forum but no ideas yet.) I want to continue to use "Auto spellcheck" -- but I want it to work. In the spelling Preferences, it has a choice "Suggest from main dictionary only" that is grayed out (and unselectable). And it has a drop down menus for "Custom Dictionary" that say "custom.dic" and "Dictionary..." that are also grayed out and unavailable. (So I am not allowed to try another dictionary.) Does anyone use or develop abiword under NetBSD? Any ideas on how to make the spell checking work? I saw a posting about everything underlined in red on this list from over a year ago. Any ideas on how I can troubleshoot this? Thanks, Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
