Can some one please help this guy.
i tried im lost ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 17:34:47 +0200 From: Bronek Baraniecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: All words marked misspelled Alan Horkan wrote: > > Keep it simple. use prebuilt binaries if possible, the gtk binaries are > simpler than the gnome ones. > > There are different varieties of linux, debian, redhat, slackware? > why compile from source when there are perfectly good binaries available? > (which leads me to suspect you are not using RedHat). > > You should take this up with the developers, or the developer list or on > IRC. > > the user list is intended more for people who use abiword rather than > building, developing, or patching. > > i mentioned that downloads can be found on sourceforge > http://sourceforge.net/projects/abiword > the abisource website is updated a little less often. > > (please excuse me if i seem irratated in this email, im not annoyed at you > but i am extremely annoyed at one of my lecturers who is arrogant and > condescending. he has given us an online bookstore project and the > fucking moron called it Ebook. retard. stupid stupid ignorant retard.) > > Sincerely > Alan Horkan > > On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 00:36:29 -0500 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: All words marked misspelled > > > > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:03:50PM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > > > > > > for me to be better able to help you > > > it helps if you say what Operating System you are running abiword on. > > > (although from your email i would guess you are using Linux). > > > > Sorry...Linux/i386. > > > > > i would appreciate if you would please try a newer version > > > > Just tried 0.99.3 (couldn't find a tarball of 0.99.4 on the website). Built with > > this: > > > > sudo make UNIX_CAN_BUILD_STATIC=1 ABI_REQUIRE_PEER_ICONV=1 install > > > > (Dynamic executable fails with unresolved symbol, z_errmsg). > > > > Had to patch ap_UnixApp.cpp and ap_UnixDialog_New.cpp due to "struct *dirent" being > > declared as const, then passed to a function looking for a non-const pointer (bugs > > 3091, 2886). Also a pow2 fix (bug 2885). > > > > Dictionary was installed as part of AW installation: > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2156456 Apr 8 00:20 american.hash > > > > Everything's still showing up as misspelled (except for the word "a"). > > > > --Brian > > > > > > > > 0.99.4 was recently released, 0.99.5 has been tagged and binaries should > > > be available on sourceforge.net very soon if not already. > > > and v1.0 should be out anytime in the next few weeks. > > > > > > you must make sure you have exactly the right spellcheck dictionary. > > > just because abiword knows it is there does not guarantee that it is the > > > right dictionary. > > > > > > There are special dictionaries provided on sourceforge as some > > > distributions do not provide dictionaries suitable for abiword and the > > > dictionaries are different on x86/Intel/AMD hardware and > > > Motorola/PowerPC > > > hardware. > > > > Hey, people, I really do not understand what is all aboout. Before misspelling I need AbiWord to accept my language env and fonts encoding ISO-8859-2, letting me to write and print! I did so much work with fonts dir, fonts path, LANG env, ttftool and ttfadmin.sh and much more without any good result. Are there a real work around to this problem? Bronek -- Bronisław Bruno Baraniecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------------------
