spell

[adams]

I must be getting too old for Unix and Linux.

I have been creating a document

http://www.commspeed.net/k7qo/NECpart1.pdf


Now I defy any one to create this using OpenOffice Writer.
Can't be done.  You have to use LaTeX.  Period.  QED.

One of things that I got around to doing was spell checking
the document.  My first pass was to use "spell".  Not installed
and not available.  Sorry to see it gone after all these  years.

You could "spell filename" and get only the words that did not
match words in /usr/share/dict/words.  Then I could sed or vi
the control words out and have just the words that weren't found.

OK.  apropos spell  and find "ispell",so  "ispell filename" and
I get back

Can't open /usr/lib/ispell/default.hash


Easy fix?  An error in the distro?  Would a newbee know how to fix 
this?  I don't, but than again I'm not the smartest guy on the block.
:-)

So, what I did do was "abiword filename" and thanks to Richard
Brodie's idea of the squiggly red underline for bad words, I
was able to muddle through and get the words eliminated that
were not spelled correctly.

Can I get spell back?  Please.  Pretty please.  Do I have to
write it from scratch?

Thanks in advance.  I'm still thinking that GUI's are not the
way to go.......  At least don't kill me off by killing off
the tools that I use or need.

FYI

Chuck Adams, PhD, retired rocket scientist