Re: [Evolution] Spell checker

[Genady Perchenko <genady angen net>]

You know, you will not believe  it, but just this morning before I got
this email, I did exactly same steps as described in the link. And yes!
as of this morning I have my spelling back! I am happy camper now!!

Thank you!    

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 10:07 -0500, Jeremey Wise wrote:
> Don't know for sure if this is related or what you are looking for but
> this is what I had to do in evolution to get spelling to work. Like
> yourself I had all packages installed but I could not get spell checking
> to work. 
> http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2004-December/041169.html
>
> As it states this is not a fix as you can not add any 'user defined'
> words (hangs the entire system hard) but it will do basic spell
> checking.
>
>
> On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 23:27 -0500, Genady Perchenko wrote:
> > 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"
> >
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