Could you please put these instructions in the wiki? It would be useful beyond sugar-devel.
regards. -walter On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:10 AM, Coltivare Fiori <coltivarefi...@connettivo.net> wrote: > I found, eventually, something that I was looking for since several > weeks. :-))) > > --- > HOW TO ENABLE SPELLCHECKING IN THE WRITE ACTIVITY ON SUGAR QUANDONG > --- > > 1) WHY IS SPELLCHECKING IMPORTANT > > Spellchecking can help children with writing disabilities go quicker, > and in particular not to fall below the speed required to follow the > meaning within the wording. > > 2) HOW TO ENABLE SPELLCHECKING IN WRITE FOR THE DEFAULT LANGUAGE OF SUGAR > > The hint, (found reading > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-247039.html), is to > install the packages > > - aspell, > - aspell-<your language code>, AND also > - enchant-aspell, that is necessary for Abiword to use aspell. > > In short, > > sudo yum install aspell aspell-it enchant-aspell > > did the trick for me. > > 3) HOW TO ENABLE SPELLCHECKING IN WRITE FOR THE A DOCUMENT IN A LANGUAGE > THAT IS NOT THE DEFAULT LANGUAGE OF SUGAR > > Follow the instructions at > http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/hacking_sugars_write_activity_to_support_spellchecking.html > and use the right-click (if your device allows it) to select the > language of the document. > IF THE CORRESPONDING aspell-<code of the language desired> PACKAGE IS > ALREADY INSTALLED (with 'sudo yum install aspell-<code of the language > desired>'), then spellchecking will work. > > 4) WHAT TO DO WHEN A WORD IS MARKED AS INCORRECT > > Right-click on the word marked as incorrect and get help :-)) > > 5) VARIATIONS > > I guess that the same results could be achieved with some mixup of > enchant and hunspell, but I have not tried that actually. > > 6) HOW DID I GET THERE > > I knew that spellchecking was available on XO's at a time, and > afterwards, it was not. > I thought that I should have been a developer to know why, and I went > the developer's way. I dedicated a machine to Sugar, and I installed > Fedora 17, then I started compiling the latest Write activity, but I > could not. Then I was informed that compiling the latest versions > requires the latest Fedora, but this was a nightmare. Not only a simple > "yum update" on my Fedora 17 broke it so badly that I had to reinstall > it from scratch, but Fedora 18 alpha did not install and I made my mind > about attempting to build a legacy Write on a legacy Sugar, letting some > Sugar developer examine my findings if any. At the end, I did not even > need to recompile Write. :-) > > 7) TESTING ON THE XO, AND FOLLOW-UP > > Can anybody check this hint out on the XO? I don't have a XO. > > Then, I think that it may be worth publishing the hint somewhere, maybe > the Sugar wiki or olpcnews. > > --- > > Thanks to everybody! > > Ernesto > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel