[Sugar-devel] How to enable spellchecking on Write Activity?

[Gonzalo Odiard]

We are porting Write to a newer version of abiword.
No more features will be developed in Write for sugar 0.96

Gonzalo

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Coltivare Fiori <
coltivarefiori at connettivo.net> wrote:

> Hello to everybody!
>
> I am running Sugar 0.96.1 with Write Activity version 79. I read the
> page at
>
> http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/hacking_sugars_write_activity_to_support_spellchecking.html
> but it refers to settings that must have changed a lot.
>
> Spellchecking is quite important with some learning disabilities,
> because it allows a quick feedback and therefore a compensation for the
> kid. Since text-to-speech is also quite important with some learning
> disabilities, I would prefer not to downgrade from Sugar 0.96.1, except
> for learning.
>
> Any idea? I already tried to install a not-so-recent abispell rpm (with
> # rpm -ivh abispell-it-IT-1.0-1.i386.rpm, providing files
> /usr/share/AbiSuite/dictionary/italian.hash and
> /usr/share/AbiSuite/dictionary/italian.hash-encoding), but then I don't
> know what to do.
>
> At http://freecode.com/projects/abiword I read "No extra packages are
> needed for spell checking in AbiWord", at least for en-US.
>
> At http://www.abisource.com/support/faq/, I read "Your AbiWord
> distribution contains a file called american.hash. This is a dictionary
> of English words".
>
> But I cannot "find / -name american.hash" in the machine running Sugar.
>
> What am I missing? =-O
>
> TIA
>
> Ernesto
>
>
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