Re: Spell check broken in Windows


Subject: Re: Spell check broken in Windows
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2000 - 15:20:31 CDT


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On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Paul Egli wrote:

> Today I (on Windows NT) did a "make distribution", ran the setup program,
> and loaded AbiWord. Spell check now considers every word to be misspelled
> except for words with numbers or in all caps (which are set to be ignored
> in the preferences). Also, single letters are not considered to be
> misspelled ("a" ,"b", etc), but other than that everything is counted as a
> misspelling.
>
> Anybody else experiencing this behavior?
>
> Actually, looking back it seems to have been broken since Tuesday.
>

We believe that this is a result of Vlad's patch. (That is the only thing
that happened on 10/9.) It has also broken the spelling dialog on
Unix. We're in the process of finding a fix.
           
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