Re: [Evolution] Spell checker

[Genady Perchenko <genady angen net>]

I added gtkspell as it was not on originaly. Now it looks like this:

enady igrushka:~> rpm -qa|grep spell| sort
aspell-0.50.5-40
aspell-en-0.51.1-2
gnome-spell-0.5-248
gnome-spell2-1.0.5-218
gtkspell-2.0.5-58
ispell-3.2.06-460
ispell-american-3.2.06-460
ispell-british-3.2.06-460
myspell-american-20040623-2
myspell-british-20040208-28

still no langs listed in the spell options window. 

On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 23:31 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 30.12.2004, 12:25 -0500 schrieb Genady Perchenko: 
> > genady igrushka:~> rpm -qa | grep aspell
> > aspell-en-0.51.1-2
> > aspell-0.50.5-40
>
> for your interest, i'm running 9.2, spell checking works fine and i've
> got the following:
>
> andre embrace:~> rpm -qa|grep spell
> ispell-3.2.06-460
> ispell-british-3.2.06-460
> ispell-german-1.5-243
> aspell-de-0.50.2-330
> gnome-spell2-1.0.5-218
> gtkspell-2.0.5-58
> myspell-german-20040703-2
> ispell-american-3.2.06-460
> ispell-ngerman-1.5-243
> aspell-0.50.5-40
>
> perhaps this helps you a bit.
> there's also a guide by mark gordon for needed rpm's for spell checking
> with evolution 1.4 which i will quote below.
>
> cheers,
> andre
>
>
> "Spell checking is one of the more complicated features in Evolution
> from a standpoint of release engineering and package management.
> Evolution uses a set of libraries for spell checking, some of which are
> used by other applications.  Evolution often requires newer versions of
> some of these libraries.  Making packages that work with both Evolution
> and older applications can be tricky (hence some of the *spell-compat
> packages we've been releasing lately for some platforms).  Additionally,
> there's the need to support a wide variety of languages.  All these make
> the problem unusually complicated.
>
> The best diagnostic for broken spell checking is to run the following
> command:
>
> rpm -qa | grep spell | sort
>
> Then check against the list below.  If anything is missing, install it
> via Red Carpet.  If you have further unexplained problems, the output of
> the above command should be included in the bug report and/or list post.
>
> Mandrake Linux 9.1:
> aspell-0.50.3-1mdk
> gnome-spell1.0-1.0.4-0.ximian.6.1
>
> Red Hat Linux 7.3:
> aspell-0.33.7.1-9
> gnome-spell1.0-1.0.4-0.ximian.4.1
> pspell-0.12.2-8
>
> Red Hat Linux 8.0:
> aspell-0.50.3-1.ximian.2
> gnome-spell1.0-1.0.4-0.ximian.5.1
>
> Red Hat Linux 9:
> aspell-0.50.3-1.ximian.2
> gnome-spell1.0-1.0.4-0.ximian.6.1
>
> SuSE Linux 8.2:
> aspell-0.50.2-74
> gnome-spell1.0-1.0.4-0.ximian.7.1
>
> This list is, of course, subject to change as new versions and revisions
> are released.
>
> This list provides the basic functionality needed to have spell
> checking, but it doesn't necessarily provide the files necessary to
> spell check in a particular language.  These files are typically split
> out into separate packages, since most machines will only need to carry
> out spell checking in a small number of languages.  Support for spell
> checking in specific languages is typically added by packages with names
> such as aspell-en (for US English), aspell-en-uk (for British English),
> aspell-de (for German), etc.  Note that Red Hat includes US English
> support in its aspell package, and hence Red Hat users typically won't
> need a separate aspell-en package.  With the exception of
> English-speaking Red Hat users, you will need to install an aspell-$LANG
> package.
>
> Important note for users of non-English languages: our gnome-spell1.0
> packages for Red Hat Linux 8.0 and Red Hat Linux 9 don't work with the
> aspell-$LANG packages provided by Red Hat.  This is because the version
> of gnome-spell1.0 used by Evolution requires an updated aspell which is
> not compatible with the aspell-$LANG packages that come with those
> versions of Red Hat Linux  Consequently, updated packages from Ximian
> will be needed to get spell checking to work in Evolution 1.4 under Red
> Hat Linux 8.0 and Red Hat Linux 9 for languages other than English.
> These packages are not yet available, but packages for several languages
> should be released quite soon, and others are in the works.
>
> To configure the language(s) for which spell checking will be enabled by
> default in the composer, go to:
>
> Tools -> Settings -> Composer Preferences -> Spell Checking
>
> This should present a list of languages for which you can do spell
> checking.  If a language is enabled, words in the dictionary for that
> language will be assumed spelled correctly.  In most cases, users will
> want only a single language checked.  Polyglots may want several
> languages selected, or they may want to change the list dynamically in
> the composer window, which can be done from: 
>
> Edit -> Current Languages
>
> ...which presents a similar list of languages.
>
> -Mark Gordon"