Thanks Ernesto for doing the research and sharing the results.<div>I have filled ticket <a href="http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4138">http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4138</a> to look at this in the next cycle.</div><div> </div><div>Gonzalo <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Coltivare Fiori <<a href="mailto:coltivarefiori@connettivo.net" target="_blank">coltivarefiori@connettivo.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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 <a href="http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-247039.html" target="_blank">http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-247039.html</a>), 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 <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/hacking_sugars_write_activity_to_support_spellchecking.html" target="_blank">http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/hacking_sugars_write_activity_to_support_spellchecking.html</a> 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 _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </blockquote></div> </div>