On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 00:33, Andrew Dunbar wrote: > This is a bad idea. Only ispell dictionaries have > these names and I for one hate the ispell naming > system. Aspell probably uses different names and > lives in different dictionaries. Note that many > distros have ispell hashes in places other than where > AbiWord probably prefers them. I'm doing some work > now to make AbiWord use any ispell hash files it can > find. Hopefully I can even make it use a mix of > ispell and aspell (and maybe even myspell) > dictionaries.
FYI, most distros patch AbiWord to use their own hash files, or configure --with-pspell. Since ispell doesn't have any real standard prefix and no good way to determine that prefix at runtime or compile time, we might be facing some limitations here. Dom
