At Sun, 19 Jan 2003 18:21:44 -0800 (PST), Mark A. Bell wrote:
> I have a friend who just got a Knoppix CD because she needs to edit
> LaTex files with Emacs. She's a Windows user. The problem is that the
> Ispell on the Knoppix CD seems to be German only - even with the option
> 'lang=us'. It throws the error 'can't find file american.hash' I can
> only find (-iname '*.hash') a deutch.hash file on the CD.
>
> Can anyone think of a work around to get English Ispell under Knoppix?
If the american (or british, even better) ispell dictionary isn't
installed, you'll need to install it ("iamerican" or "ibritish"
packages).
If you get around to doing a harddisk install, consider switching to
"aspell" - it gives much better suggestions than ispell, and is mostly
a drop-in replacement. I have this in my ~/.xemacs/init.el:
;; use aspell
(setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell"
ispell-local-dictionary "british")
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- Gus
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