Hi Ignaz, Thanks for your advice. I tried it out but I still get the same problem. I don't know if it's at all related but I can't get spellchecking working in Evolution either!!
Chris Abrams. On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 09:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > you could try the following: > In your home directory there should be a directory calles /.AbiSuite with a > AbiWord.Profile file in it. > It worked to me to set the following entries to this: > <Select > scheme="standard" > autosaveprefs="1" > useenvlocale="1" > /> > > and to create a new profile called "standard" (not _builtin_), and to copy > all entries containing the language files and paste it into the new profile. > Then I replaced the en-US with my language, and it worked. > > I think there should be a more easy way to do that, but as I'm using the > BeOS version, I can't use the configuration boxes, so I don't know how to change > it that way... > > Ignaz Forster > > > > I've installed version 1.02 of AbiWord on Mandrake 8.1 using an RPM from > > the Ximian website. I uninstalled version 0.92 of AbiWord (the one that > > shipped with Mandrake 8.1) and, following previous advice on this list, > > deleted the .AbiSuite directory from my home directory. I installed > > AbiWord 1.02 without any problems but could not get the spellchecker to > > work, with the language set to English (UK) or English (US). Each time > > the program returned the message "Could not load the dictionary for the > > XXX language". So I downloaded the abispell-en-GB rpm from SourceForge > > and installed that. I selected English (UK) as my language, but again > > the spellcheck facility in AbiWord reported that it was unable to load > > the dictionary (in this case the en-GB dictionary). I have verified that > > the british.hash file is in the /usr/share/AbiSuite/dictionary > > directory. > > > > Any advice on how to resolve this problem would be much appreciated. > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Chris Abrams. > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > > unsubscribe in the message body. > > > > -- > GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. > http://www.gmx.net > > ----------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > unsubscribe in the message body. ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
