"Spell check as you type" greyed out in TB2
Herb
Is there a good reason and/or a solution for this?
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Chris Ilias
> The "Spell check as you type" option appears to be greyed out in TB2 =-O
>
> Is there a good reason and/or a solution for this?
Do you have any spell-check languages? If not, you can get them at
<https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/dictionaries/>.
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Moz Champion (Dan)
> The "Spell check as you type" option appears to be greyed out in TB2 =-O
>
> Is there a good reason and/or a solution for this?
>
Its available and enabled here. Did you have spellcheck enabled in 1.5x?
Herb
> On 18/04/2007 8:29 PM, _Herb_ spoke thusly:
>> The "Spell check as you type" option appears to be greyed out in TB2 =-O
>>
>> Is there a good reason and/or a solution for this?
>
> Do you have any spell-check languages? If not, you can get them at
> <https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/dictionaries/>.
Yes, sure, I had British English and German installed in TB 1.5
Come to think of it, I had manually deleted US English - perhaps that's
what causes the problem?
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Herb
Chris Ilias
The location of dictionary files is different in Thunderbird 2. When you
go to Tools-->Options-->Composition-->Spelling, are you /sure/ you have
a language set?
Herb
On closer inspection, it seems that TB2 doesn't recognise my
dictionaries (i.e. no languages are available for selection in the Check
Spelling window), despite the fact that
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\components\myspell contains the
following files:
de-DE.aff 12.57 KB
de-DE.dic 1.06 MB
en-GB.aff 26.73 KB
en-GB.dic 513.67 KB
README-de-DE.txt 18.32 KB
README-en-GB.txt 1.40 KB
Any suggestions?
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Chris Ilias
> On closer inspection, it seems that TB2 doesn't recognise my
> dictionaries (i.e. no languages are available for selection in the Check
> Spelling window), despite the fact that
> C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\components\myspell contains the
> following files:
>
> de-DE.aff 12.57 KB
> de-DE.dic 1.06 MB
> en-GB.aff 26.73 KB
> en-GB.dic 513.67 KB
> README-de-DE.txt 18.32 KB
> README-en-GB.txt 1.40 KB
>
> Any suggestions?
As I said, you can get dictionaries at
<https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/dictionaries/>.
You can also copy the files from
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\components\myspell"
to
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\dictionaries"
Herb
> The location of dictionary files is different in Thunderbird 2. When you
> go to Tools-->Options-->Composition-->Spelling, are you /sure/ you have
> a language set?
Ooops, I didn't realise the setup is different in TB2 =-O
Inline spelling was in fact not activated. I ticked the relevant box
now, but I can't select/set a language because the drop-down menu is
kind of 'crippled', i.e. it is microscopic and I can't change the size.
Do you want to see a screenshot?
Or perhaps I can move my dictionaries manually?
What is the correct location?
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Herb
> You can also copy the files from
> "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\components\myspell"
> to
> "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\dictionaries"
Thanks. I don't have a dictionaries directory.
Can/should I create one manually?
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Moz Champion (Dan)
It is just as simple to install new ones, faster too
Herb
> It is just as simple to install new ones, faster too
Just tried it, but I get incompatibility error messages for both the
German and the British dictionary :-(
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Chris Ilias
> On 19.04.2007 02:53 UK Time, Moz Champion (Dan) wrote:
>
>> It is just as simple to install new ones, faster too
>
> Just tried it, but I get incompatibility error messages for both the
> German and the British dictionary :-(
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.thunderbird/msg/2e99395e7054b6db
(For Tb2, it's Tools-->Add-ons, instead of Tools-->Extensions.)
Herb
> On 18/04/2007 10:05 PM, _Herb_ spoke thusly:
>> On 19.04.2007 02:53 UK Time, Moz Champion (Dan) wrote:
>>
>>> It is just as simple to install new ones, faster too
>>
>> Just tried it, but I get incompatibility error messages for both the
>> German and the British dictionary :-(
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.thunderbird/msg/2e99395e7054b6db
>
> (For Tb2, it's Tools-->Add-ons, instead of Tools-->Extensions.)
Thanks, but I tried dragging the dictionary files into the Add-ons
window (which is another option, isn't it?), and TB2 tried to install
them but returned a compatibility error (and the "Make all compatible"
function available in Nightly Tester Tools doesn't work).
I'll try again and make a note/screenshot of the error message and
report back.
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Chris Ilias
> Thanks, but I tried dragging the dictionary files into the Add-ons
> window (which is another option, isn't it?), and TB2 tried to install
> them but returned a compatibility error (and the "Make all compatible"
> function available in Nightly Tester Tools doesn't work).
>
> I'll try again and make a note/screenshot of the error message and
> report back.
Okay, I just checked the de-de and en-gb dictionary files; and they are
apparently set to only be compatible up to Beta 1 or 2. Try creating the
dictionaries directory, and copying the files over. I'll file a bug
about getting those addons.mozilla.org file updated.
Herb
> On 18/04/2007 10:19 PM, _Herb_ spoke thusly:
>> Thanks, but I tried dragging the dictionary files into the Add-ons
>> window (which is another option, isn't it?), and TB2 tried to install
>> them but returned a compatibility error (and the "Make all compatible"
>> function available in Nightly Tester Tools doesn't work).
>>
>> I'll try again and make a note/screenshot of the error message and
>> report back.
>
> Okay, I just checked the de-de and en-gb dictionary files; and they are
> apparently set to only be compatible up to Beta 1 or 2. Try creating the
> dictionaries directory, and copying the files over. I'll file a bug
> about getting those addons.mozilla.org file updated.
Thanks for filing the bug report.
I created the dictionaries directory manually and copied the old dic
files, and it works 8-)
By the way, I'm pleased to note that inline spelling now includes the
subject line which is great, because typos in the subject line can be
particularly embarrassing!
However, switching dictionaries while composing a message doesn't appear
to affect the subject line, so there appears to be room for improvement,
in fact one could even regard it as a bug. Is it worth filing a separate
report about this?
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Brian Heinrich
<snip />
> It is just as simple to install new ones, faster too
How do you figure? -- All he needs to do is copy/cut-&-paste two files. . . .
Here's a question, tho': Under Linux, I can just create symlinks to the DIC
and AFF files. IIUC, Win Vista supports symlinks, so it should be possible
to do so under Vista; and under OS X, with its BSD heritage, I suspect you
can do the same: but what about other versions of Windows?
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String quartets don't march very well.
--Donald Barthelme, /The Dead Father/
Brian Heinrich
> On 19.04.2007 02:53 UK Time, Moz Champion (Dan) wrote:
>
>> It is just as simple to install new ones, faster too
>
> Just tried it, but I get incompatibility error messages for both the
> German and the British dictionary :-(
Really, just copy/cut-&-paste the files from the old directory to the new.
If there's a compatibility error, it'll be in the installer; there shouldn't
be compatibility errors in with the dictionary files themselves. . . .
Brian Heinrich
<snip />
> By the way, I'm pleased to note that inline spelling now includes the
> subject line which is great, because typos in the subject line can be
> particularly embarrassing!
>
> However, switching dictionaries while composing a message doesn't appear
> to affect the subject line, so there appears to be room for improvement,
> in fact one could even regard it as a bug. Is it worth filing a separate
> report about this?
I've not tried, but I'd guess that you'd have to return focus to the subject
line after changing dictionaries for it to be reparsed. . . .
Herb
>> However, switching dictionaries while composing a message doesn't
>> appear to affect the subject line, so there appears to be room for
>> improvement, in fact one could even regard it as a bug. Is it worth
>> filing a separate report about this?
>
> I've not tried, but I'd guess that you'd have to return focus to the
> subject line after changing dictionaries for it to be reparsed. . . .
>
No, it doesn't seem to work :-(
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Thanos
Same here... But you could try to right click while in subject line and
from there select the language you want. That will change the language
for the whole message (subject line and body of message).
Herb
> Same here... But you could try to right click while in subject line and
> from there select the language you want. That will change the language
> for the whole message (subject line and body of message).
Thanks, but this only seems to change the language of the subject line :-(
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Thanos
> On 19.04.2007 17:39 UK Time, Thanos wrote:
>
>> Same here... But you could try to right click while in subject line
>> and from there select the language you want. That will change the
>> language for the whole message (subject line and body of message).
>
> Thanks, but this only seems to change the language of the subject line :-(
Don't know... Are you with the 1.5.x.x profile? If yes, you could try to
create a new one and test since this is a new feature and may be a
conflict or something with the settings of the 1.5.x.x profile.
Nir
> but what about other versions of Windows?
>
some interesting pages
"http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfslinkext"
"http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?ntfslink"
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link#Other"
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