Hi, Is there any way to type or insert foreign characters with diacritical marks (accents) in Abiword 1.0.3 for Windows without using Insert->Symbol? I don't want to use the symbol fonts to insert foreign characters because the spell checker can't deal with those fonts.
The spell checker won't recognize text with characters inserted by Insert->Symbol. The spell checker, however, will recognize text which has been cut and pasted from other program like MSWord. So I need to use normal fonts, not symbol fonts. Can I type the foreign characters using normal fonts in Abiword for Windows? My guess is that the numbers are different for Symbol fonts rather than normal fonts, so the spell checker doesn't recognize the words created with the symbol fonts. This problem does not happen when I run Abiword for Linux, only for Windows. I know that Windows Abiword uses Ispell, while Linux Abiword uses Aspell to spell check, so that might be the difference. I convinced everyone in my Portuguese class to use Abiword for Windows to spell check our Portuguese papers, but now everyone is complaining. I almost converted 20 other people to the world of free software. Sigh...Oh well. Any suggestions? -Thanks in advance, Amos Batto ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
