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Subject:    Re: Difficulties with dictionary. (fwd)
From:       "R H Cotterell" <seec () mail ! retina ! ar>
Date:       2006-11-06 19:36:25
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OK, Alan, I'll take a shot...

I will assume Drummond is running a Windows machine in order to 
guide him to a satisfactory finish, that is, to have the British 
Dictionary working for him as his spell checker.

1. Open an instance of AbiWord
2. Click on Help menu and choose Check for Updates
3. navigate to the Download page
4. At the Main Download Page, choose Microft Windows *Get 
Dictionaries* button
5. This will open the Dictionaries page list. Double click 
*AbiWord_Dictionary_British.exe*
6. It will ask you where to place on your disk (assuming you have 
it set to ask for instructions every time). Suggestion: Desktop, 
Downloads directory, etc. etc.
7. When download completes close all open files and drop your web 
connection.
8. Find this file (name as in #5) in Windows Explorer and place 
your mouse cursor on the file and double click it.
9. The install process screens will follow and make the 
approipriate choices. The Dictionary will install itself in the 
AbiWord 2 directory under Dictionaries.

You will then have access to the British Dictionary in AbiWord 
once you have selected it as your DEFAULT Dictionary.

Richard




Re: Alan Horkan's message
    dated 6 Nov 2006 17:58 hours

>
>
>Busy now, might reply to this later.
>Would appreciate if others could respond to this user.
>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 17:48:02 -0000
>From: Drummond Blakely <axyc63@dsl.pipex.com>
>To: Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie>
>Subject: Difficulties with dictionary.
>
>Dear Alan,
>    Thanks for your suggestions regarding my difficulties installing the
>UK English dictionary. As I said (I don't have our original
>correspondence) I just clicked on "get dictionary" on the website and
>downloaded the British version.
>    The reason for this message is this. On the disk from which I got
>AbiWord - and indeed on the website when tried it that way - the
>dictionary I wanted is listed as "English (UK)" or something like that (it
>might be "GB"). And that's how it's referred to in those error messages
>that pop up to tell you that AbiWord couldn't load the dictionary.
>    But on the list that appears when you click Get Dictionary I think
>it's listed just as "British". Could the difficulty be connected to this
>discrepancy in some way?
>    I know little about how these systems operate, and I won't be
>surprised if this is completely irrelevant. But I just wanted to mention
>it.
>
>All the best
>Drummond Blakely.
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