[Sugar-devel] [SOLVED] Spellchecking with Write on Sugar Quandong

[Walter Bender]

Could you please put these instructions in the wiki? It would be
useful beyond sugar-devel.

regards.

-walter

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:10 AM, Coltivare Fiori
<coltivarefiori at connettivo.net> wrote:
> I found, eventually, something that I was looking for since several
> weeks.  :-)))
>
> ---
> HOW TO ENABLE SPELLCHECKING IN THE WRITE ACTIVITY ON SUGAR QUANDONG
> ---
>
> 1) WHY IS SPELLCHECKING IMPORTANT
>
> Spellchecking can help children with writing disabilities go quicker,
> and in particular not to fall below the speed required to follow the
> meaning within the wording.
>
> 2) HOW TO ENABLE SPELLCHECKING IN WRITE FOR THE DEFAULT LANGUAGE OF SUGAR
>
> The hint, (found reading
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-247039.html), is to
> install the packages
>
>         - aspell,
>         - aspell-<your language code>, AND also
>         - enchant-aspell, that is necessary for Abiword to use aspell.
>
> In short,
>
>         sudo yum install aspell aspell-it enchant-aspell
>
> did the trick for me.
>
> 3) HOW TO ENABLE SPELLCHECKING IN WRITE FOR THE A DOCUMENT IN A LANGUAGE
> THAT IS NOT THE DEFAULT LANGUAGE OF SUGAR
>
> Follow the instructions at
> http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/hacking_sugars_write_activity_to_support_spellchecking.html
> and use the right-click (if your device allows it) to select the
> language of the document.
> IF THE CORRESPONDING aspell-<code of the language desired> PACKAGE IS
> ALREADY INSTALLED (with 'sudo yum install aspell-<code of the language
> desired>'), then spellchecking will work.
>
> 4) WHAT TO DO WHEN A WORD IS MARKED AS INCORRECT
>
> Right-click on the word marked as incorrect and get help :-))
>
> 5) VARIATIONS
>
> I guess that the same results could be achieved with some mixup of
> enchant and hunspell, but I have not tried that actually.
>
> 6) HOW DID I GET THERE
>
> I knew that spellchecking was available on XO's at a time, and
> afterwards, it was not.
> I thought that I should have been a developer to know why, and I went
> the developer's way. I dedicated a machine to Sugar, and I installed
> Fedora 17, then I started compiling the latest Write activity, but I
> could not. Then I was informed that compiling the latest versions
> requires the latest Fedora, but this was a nightmare. Not only a simple
> "yum update" on my Fedora 17 broke it so badly that I had to reinstall
> it from scratch, but Fedora 18 alpha did not install and I made my mind
> about attempting to build a legacy Write on a legacy Sugar, letting some
> Sugar developer examine my findings if any. At the end, I did not even
> need to recompile Write. :-)
>
> 7) TESTING ON THE XO, AND FOLLOW-UP
>
> Can anybody check this hint out on the XO? I don't have a XO.
>
> Then, I think that it may be worth publishing the hint somewhere, maybe
> the Sugar wiki or olpcnews.
>
> ---
>
> Thanks to everybody!
>
> Ernesto
>
>
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