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Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?



On 02/04/11 09:00, Lisi wrote:
> On Friday 01 April 2011 16:02:53 Camaleón wrote:
>> On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:48:25 +0200, Klistvud wrote:
>>> Dne, 01. 04. 2011 16:40:37 je Camaleón napisal(a):
>>>> Check your "thesaurus" packages (dpkg -l | grep -i thesaurus) and look
>>>> for the OOo's italian one ("-i10n" packages are mostly for the UI -
>>>> localization-).
>>>
>>> ii  libmythes-1.2-0
>>> 2:1.2.1-1                         simple thesaurus library ii
>>> openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us
>>> 1:3.2.1-2                         English Thesaurus for OpenOffice.org
>>> ii  openoffice.org-thesaurus-it
>>> 2.0.7.gh.deb1-1.1                 Italian Thesaurus for OpenOffice.org 2
>>>
>>> It's installed, apparenly...
>>
>> How weird :-?
>>
>> Well, if we attend to this notice:
>>
>> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries
>>
>> "(...)	IMPORTANT NOTE: From OpenOffice.org 3.0 on the dictionary wizard
>> is no longer available -- All new dictionaries are now available via the
>> Extensions Repository."
>>
>> You may try the extension (as suggested) and check if that works:
>>
>> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/Dict_it_IT
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> --
>> Camaleón
> 
> And what about English English??  Surely a reasonable concept, but:
> 
> Dutch	Nederlands	Dutch spelling and hyphenation Dictionary
> Engligh	English	Chemistry Dictionary
> English		English dictionaries with fixed dash handling and new ligature and 
> phonetic suggestion support
> English (Australian)	English (Australian)	English Australian Dictionary
> English (Canadian)	English (Canadian)	Canadian English Spell Checking, 
> Hyphenation and Thesaurus
> English (New Zealand)	English (New Zealand)	English New Zealand Dictionary
> English (South African)	English (South African)	South African English spell 
> checking dictionary
> English (US)	English (US)	US English Spell Checking Dictionary
> Esperanto	Esperanto	Esperantilo - spell check, grammar checker and thesaurus 
> for Esperanto language
> 
> (Lines before and after shown to illustrate that I have not simply omitted it.  
> It actually belongs between Canada and New Zealand.)
> 
> When is English English going to get a look in??  I work in OOo without a 
> spell checker because I am so fed up with being told that honor is right and 
> honour is wrong, fantasize is right and fantasise is wrong.  Etc.  And I like 
> to use a spell checker because I am a lousy typist and an even worse 
> proof-reader.
> 
> My lovely Kmail spell checker just tried to correct honor and fantasize!!
> 
> US, OK.  I don't like it, but they are numerous.  But Australian, Canadian, 
> New Zealand and South Africa get a mention and we don't.  It is called 
> English. Surely the English English should get a look in??
> 
> Lisi
> 
> 


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