Bug#422937: Spell checking not working
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:37:33AM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> tag 422937 + moreinfo
> tag 422937 + unreproducible
> thanks
>
> Hi,
>
> Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> > You may think that it's the trivial issue of not having the
> > proper language set in the paragraph style. Well, it's not.
> > This is what I do in Writer :
> > o create a new Text document.
> > o type random characters
> > o select the text
> > o context menu -> Characters
> > o Language is set to "English USA"
> > o Tools->Spellcheck
> > o "The spellcheck is complete".
> > o Text it not corrected.
>
> Hmm.
>
> > Note that after noticing the problem, the first thing I did
> > was to delete the ~/.office* directories. This did not help.
>
> Because they don't exist? :)
Yeah, I meant the following directories :
~/.openoffice
~/.openoffice.org2/
>[...]
> wrong, unrelevant dir. This one here is important, though:
>
> $ dpkg -L openoffice.org-common | grep dict
> /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict
> /usr/share/myspell/dicts
> /usr/share/myspell/dicts/DicOOo.sxw
> /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> /usr/share/myspell/dicts/dictionary.lst
>
> $ ls -l /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2007-04-10 09:23 /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo -> ../../../../share/myspell/dicts
>
> Do you have that? (If not, i've no idea why it got lost as it *is* in
> the package)
# dpkg -L openoffice.org-common | grep dict
/usr/share/myspell/dicts
/usr/share/myspell/dicts/DicOOo.sxw
/usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo
/usr/share/myspell/dicts/dictionary.lst
# ls -l /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88 2007-05-08 14:27 dictionary.lst
# ls -l /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-05-08 14:27 ooo/
Thanks. I think I can see the problem.
I've fixed the symlink and it's all working now.
> Regards,
>
> Rene
Thanks a lot for your help !
Jean
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