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AbiWord Spell Checker (a brief howto)

Posted: Mon 16 May 2005, 05:48
by Bruce B
I thought I'd document for others how I got AbiWord spell checker working for me. It was pretty simple, but not intuitive.

I downloaded the AU dictionary from:

http://www.abiword.com/download/abispell.phtml

I then extracted the british.hash and british.hash.encoding files to the
/root/.AbiSuite/dictionary directory

It worked!

updated directory is

Posted: Tue 17 May 2005, 04:23
by wcarl
Updated directory is : /usr/local/share/AbiSuite-2.2/dictionary
Have to set country default and auto spell check.

Posted: Wed 18 May 2005, 15:48
by wscarl
Correction forgot first "/" sorry!
Updated directory is : /user/local/share/AbiSuite-2.2/dictionary
Have to set county defualt and auto spell check.

correction 2

Posted: Sun 22 May 2005, 00:39
by wscarl
/usr/local/share/AbiSuite-2.2/dictionary

this works for me

Posted: Sun 22 May 2005, 09:50
by Bruce B
I setup Puppy version 1.0.2 after making the parent post

I tried it your way by putting the dictionary files in:
/usr/local/share/AbiSuite-2.2/dictionary

and it didn't work for me.

Then I put the dictionary files in:

/root/.AbiSuite/dictionary

and it worked for me.