[Pan-users] Re: Spellchecking

[Duncan]

Steffen Hey posted <address@hidden>,
excerpted below,  on Mon, 03 Nov 2003 12:30:32 +0100:

> Is there a way to switch between english and german spellcheking or
> combine tese two dictionary's?

No way to do it on-the-fly.  As I mentioned, switching between them by
quitting PAN, changing your $LANG variable, and restarting it, should
work, but that's certainly not as easy as choosing within the PAN GUI
would be.

Incidentally, that's the reason Mandrake has given for distributing the
nospell version as their binary -- that it's to hard to switch between
spellcheck dictionaries, so they simply disable spellchecking altogether. 
Not that it inconveniences me specifically that much, because I run the
betas and compile from tarball because I often fetch them b4 rpms of any
sort are available, but it DOES disturb me that folks trying PAN out on
the distrib don't get to see its full capabilities..

As far as combining dictionaries, VERY good question.  I haven't looked
into it to see what format the dictionaries are in, but altho I normally
only do English, it'd be handy to be able to edit the main dictionary from
time to time instead of just the custom one.  Since I often use terms like
software libre, it'd be nice to add libre, for instance, and on a Linux
platform, it just makes sense that it should be in the main dictionary not
just a personal/custom dictionary.

Anyway, if you look into combining them and find out what needs to be done
to do so, and/or just what the file is and whether it's plain text or what
format, please post the info, as it'd be useful to me as well.  It's not
like it's some big secret, since we ARE talking open source, here, but I
just haven't had the chance to go look, and I'm all for being saved the
trouble if someone else knows and posts it b4 I get to it!  <g>

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