[gentoo-user] [OT]:Evolution/OpenOffice spell checking not working

[gentoo-user] [OT]:Evolution/OpenOffice spell checking not working

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   On my dad's machine - 350 miles remote from me - he reports that
spell checking has ceased to work. In Evolution the option to check is
grey'ed out. In Open Office he says it acts like it's spell checking
but isn't doing anything and completes with spelling mistakes.

   I took a quick look in the forums but didn't spot anything very
similar. Since this is OO-bin it's not like I do anything to add spell
checking with USE flags.

   The environment is Gnome. The problem has been around in Evolution
for awhile (since before his gcc-4.1.1. upgrade of last week) but is
apparently new Open Office or at least this is the first I've heard
about it.

   Is spell checking something that is provided by Gnome or is it
driven by each application?

   Any config options I should go looking for?

Thanks in advance,
Mark
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]:Evolution/OpenOffice spell checking not working

[Ric de France]

Mark,

There's some dictionaries you've got to include to allow for the spell
check to work in OO.o... From memory, try:

# emerge -DNuva aspell-en
# emerge -DNuva hunspell

I'm sure there's more to include, but I can't remember them. Don't
forget to restart OO.o to pick up the new dictionaries...

To see all the available dictionaries, try:

# emerge -s spell

HTH,

...Ric

On 22/12/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    On my dad's machine - 350 miles remote from me - he reports that
> spell checking has ceased to work. In Evolution the option to check is
> grey'ed out. In Open Office he says it acts like it's spell checking
> but isn't doing anything and completes with spelling mistakes.
>
>    I took a quick look in the forums but didn't spot anything very
> similar. Since this is OO-bin it's not like I do anything to add spell
> checking with USE flags.
>
>    The environment is Gnome. The problem has been around in Evolution
> for awhile (since before his gcc-4.1.1. upgrade of last week) but is
> apparently new Open Office or at least this is the first I've heard
> about it.
>
>    Is spell checking something that is provided by Gnome or is it
> driven by each application?
>
>    Any config options I should go looking for?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark
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>
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]:Evolution/OpenOffice spell checking not working

[Mark Knecht]

On 12/21/06, Ric de France <rdefrance@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark,
>
> There's some dictionaries you've got to include to allow for the spell
> check to work in OO.o... From memory, try:
>
> # emerge -DNuva aspell-en
> # emerge -DNuva hunspell
>
> I'm sure there's more to include, but I can't remember them. Don't
> forget to restart OO.o to pick up the new dictionaries...
>
> To see all the available dictionaries, try:
>
> # emerge -s spell
>
> HTH,
>
> ...Ric
>

Thanks Ric,
   As for Evolution it turns out that he had probably deselected the
dictionary choice inside of Evolution itself. I reenabled that and now
Evolution correctly spell checks.

   As for Open Office I've decided to wait until I'm there for
Christmas to look at it.

   I seem to have a reasonable set of things installed on his system:

gandalf ~ # eix -Ic spell
[I] app-dicts/aspell-en (0.51.1): English (US, British, Canadian)
language dictionary for aspell
[I] app-text/aspell (0.50.5-r4): A spell checker replacement for ispell
[I] app-text/gnome-spell (1.0.7-r1): Gnome spellchecking component
[I] app-text/gtkspell (2.0.11-r1): Spell checking widget for GTK2
Found 4 matches.
gandalf ~ #

   Thanks very much for the ideas.

Cheers,
Mark
   I seem to have reasonable things installed:
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]:Evolution/OpenOffice spell checking not working

[Peter Ruskin]

On Friday 22 December 2006 14:52, Mark Knecht wrote:
>    As for Open Office I've decided to wait until I'm there for
> Christmas to look at it.
>
>    I seem to have a reasonable set of things installed on his
> system:
>
> gandalf ~ # eix -Ic spell
> [I] app-dicts/aspell-en (0.51.1): English (US, British, Canadian)
> language dictionary for aspell
> [I] app-text/aspell (0.50.5-r4): A spell checker replacement for
> ispell [I] app-text/gnome-spell (1.0.7-r1): Gnome spellchecking
> component [I] app-text/gtkspell (2.0.11-r1): Spell checking
> widget for GTK2 Found 4 matches.

>From my openoffice emerge log...

 Spell checking is now provided through our own myspell-ebuilds, 
 if you want to use it, please install the correct myspell package 
 according to your language needs. 

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