[Sugar-devel] Spell checker, Grammar checker for Write

Gonzalo Odiard godiard at gmail.com
Mon Aug 31 16:33:04 EDT 2015


You can try
http://dev.laptop.org/~gonzalo/abiword-with-spell-checking-enabled.zip
(for arm) for xo-1, xo-1.5, you need recompile the abiword rpm.
We have a spec and patches, but mostly are changes needed to support touch
in the XO-4 [1]
Maybe you can try using a standard fedora rpm for 32 bits.

[1] https://github.com/godiard/olpc-abiword-rpm

Gonzalo


On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Lionel Laské <lionel at olpc-france.org>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thanks Sam and Jerry for advice.
> Thanks Gonzalo for this very detailed answer.
>
> I've tested it on a XO-4 with 0.106.
> I've removed the line you mentioned in keybindings.xml file but without
> any result neither in Write activity (tested in v96 and v82) neither in
> abiword.
> Guess it means that --disable-spell was used at compilation time.
> Is there a place where I could download another binary/rpm with the spell
> enable ?
>
>            Lionel.
>
>
>
> 2015-08-31 14:28 GMT+02:00 Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi Lionel,
>>
>> The spell checker on Write was disable due to bug
>> http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4124
>>
>> To enable, you need edit the file
>> /home/olpc/Activities/Write.activity/keybindings.xml
>> and remove the line:
>> <unbind-mappings handler="contextMisspellText"/>
>>
>> If that do not work you need check:
>> * if the abiword rpm in your image was compiled with the option
>> --disable-spell or not
>> (a good test could be run abiword in the terminal and check if you can
>> enable spell check)
>> * you need check if a dictionary for French is needed.
>> Abiword can use aspell or ispell dictionaries
>> http://www.abisource.com/help/en-US/info/infospelling.html
>>
>> Tell us the result of your test in your environment,
>> maybe is time of enable the feature again.
>>
>> Gonzalo
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 4:44 AM, Lionel Laské <lionel at olpc-france.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> An OLPC France teacher working on our small XO-4 deployment asked me if
>>> it's possible to enhance Write activity with a spell checker, grammar
>>> checker or a dictionary (all in French).
>>>
>>> I reminded me that Write activity is based on AbiWord and it seems that
>>> AbiWord allow some sort of plug-ins.
>>>
>>> Do you know if it's possible to enhance Write with AbiWord plugins ?
>>> Is there someone that experience this sort of thing ?
>>>
>>> Tell me.
>>>
>>> Best regards from France.
>>>
>>>            Lionel.
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Gonzalo Odiard
>>
>>
>


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Gonzalo Odiard
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