Spellchecker in Evolution

phunkphorce · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 145

Hi,

What do I need to have the spellchecker working under Evolution? The option is there, but no matter what I type it always says that there were no spelling mistakes found... What does it really need? I have both aspell and ispell (both work fine from the command line) including the aspell-en and aspell-es dictionaries, and when I'm typing a message in Evolution I can see the gnome-spell-component-0.5 running as well... But that's it, nothing else happens if I make a typing mistake. Any ideas?

Thanks

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timmfin · Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2003 3:03 pm Post subject:

With aspell you have to emerge a aspell language for it to completly work. For me that is:

phunkphorce · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 145

Hmmmm... I already had aspell-en and aspell-es, and if I use aspell from the command line (sometimes I do), it works fine... My main problem is how to use it from within Evolution, as it seems to do nothing with my text even if there are any mistakes

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timmfin · Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2003 3:44 pm Post subject:

Hmm, sorry about that then. Which version of evolution are you using?

phunkphorce · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 145

Thanks for your help anyway

I'm using Evolution 1.2 (just emerged it a few days ago)
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timmfin · Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 5:29 am Post subject:

The only other thing that I can think of is to make sure that spell checking is turned on in the options. Tools -> Settings -> Composer Preferences -> Spell Checking -> Check the box "Check spelling while I type".

This is not ment to insult your intelligence, but is the only other thing I can think of.

phunkphorce · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 145

Yes thanks, I already checked that... I also enabled automatic checking so that whenever I make a mistake Evolution underlines it with a red line, but it doesn't work either.

Anyway, thanks for your help. I'll keep investigating

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