[Pan-users] Re: Questions about the next release

[Bob Henson]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:29:02 +0000, Steve Davies wrote:

>> I'm not sure this is the point or place to ask, but will their be a new
>> Windows port? If so, will the spell check function be included?

> The existing Windows installer version is meant to have aspell support
> compiled in - Sadly I can find no instructions on what to do next. If
> you manage to make it work, or determine that I have missed something,
> please tell me the incantation and I will compile it in, or put the
> details onto the website as necessary.

I downloaded the installers for Pan 0.133 and for Aspell and the English 
dictionaries, and tried every combination of instalment position I could 
think of for Aspell, but to no avail (see my long conversation with 
Sinner in alt.os.linux.mint). I installed them in the standard place in 
Windows 7, in c:\aspell, added Aspell to the windows Path, as 
subdirectories of Pan, actually in the Pan directory with aspell.dll, but 
no joy. Aspell actually worked form the command line, but I couldn't get 
Pan to call it. 

The only clue I can give you was spotted by Sinner - any attempt to write 
a message with spell checking selected immediately produced an error 
message in the log saying that Pan could not find the en_US word file - 
which might indicate it's coded to only look for that one dictionary.





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Regards,

Bob
Licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant - Tacitus