[lug] Re: spell-check for evolution

Rob Riggs rob at pangalactic.org
Fri Apr 19 11:45:34 MDT 2002


I agree. After installing gnome-spell from Ximian, the misspelled words
are underlined and a "Spell check document..." option appears under the
"Edit" menu. The spell checker does appear to be working properly.

Thanks to all that responded!

-Rob

On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 11:28, Hugh Brown wrote:
> when I look at the email  I see the misspelled words underlined in red
> and when I ran the spell check it found all of your misspellings and
> proffered alternatives for all of them.
> 
> rpm -q aspell gnome-spell evolution libgtkhtml20
> aspell-0.33.7-1
> gnome-spell-0.4-ximian.2
> evolution-1.0.3-ximian.4
> libgtkhtml20-1.0.2-ximian.1
> 
> Hugh
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 12:58, Warren Sanders wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 17:52, Riggs, Rob wrote:
> > > Looks like I need to install gnome-spell. Thanks!
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Hugh Brown [mailto:hugh at vecna.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 5:22 PM
> > > To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > > Subject: [lug] Re: spell-check for evolution
> > > 
> > > 
> > > the evolution rpm from ximian doesn't require gnome-spell but if you
> > > install it it will work (I'm using it right now).
> > > 
> > > I did run into a problem with evolution 1.0.2 and a version of
> > > libgtkhtml where it would crash the mail portion if you did a spell
> > > check.  I think the latest libgtkhtml and evolution don't have that
> > > problem.
> > > 
> > > Hugh
> > 
> > I'm giving Evolution a try and testing out the spell checker; I don't
> > see this correcting any ofthese misspeled wrds!  It says "No misspelled
> > word found".  Nice!
> > -- 
> > Warren Sanders
> > http://MontanaLinux.Org
> > 
> 
> 
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