On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 08:44:20PM -0000, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote: > Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:21:47 +0200 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: David Jardine <david@jardine.de> > Subject: Re: UK english for openoffice > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 03:33:44PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > I have recently installed openoffice and I would like to > > > start using it, but I need a UK english spell checker. > > > Does anybody know if there is a debian package which > > > provides UK english? or do I have to do some manual > > > file hacking? > > > > What's wrong with "American" English ?? :-) Maybe you guys > > will start spelling "color", "meter", and so on correctly... > > What you mean is > What's wrong with American "English"? > it's a hassle but this is how i did it: download the en_GB dictionary from here: http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/download_dictionary.html the instructions are misleading. i unzipped the en_GB in /wordbook then backed up OpenOffice.org1.0.1/share/dict/ooo in case i fscked up. then, edit the /ooo/dictionary.lst file and replace en_US with en_GB equivalent. cp all the newly unzipped /wordbook/* files into /ooo/ ls -l /ooo/ and you should see that the en_GB files have different permissions to the en_US. chmod 755 en-GB* and you should have this: -rw-r--r-- 1 joss joss 1750 Aug 13 22:51 README_en_GB.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 joss joss 627 Aug 13 22:52 dictionary.lst -rwxr-xr-x 1 joss joss 5651 Aug 13 22:51 en_GB.aff -rwxr-xr-x 1 joss joss 668491 Aug 13 22:51 en_GB.dic -rwxr-xr-x 1 joss joss 2728 Jul 11 07:00 en_US.aff -rwxr-xr-x 1 joss joss 695724 Jul 11 07:00 en_US.dic -rw-r--r-- 1 joss joss 6049 Jul 11 07:00 hyph_da.dic -rw-r--r-- 1 joss joss 42600 Jul 11 07:00 hyph_de.dic -rw-r--r-- 1 joss joss 79289 Aug 13 22:51 hyph_en.dic -rw-r--r-- 1 joss joss 22071 Jul 11 07:00 hyph_ru.dic -rw-r--r-- 1 joss joss 1886 Aug 13 22:51 standard.dic -rwxr-xr-x 1 joss joss 3284160 Jul 11 07:00 th_en_US.dat -rwxr-xr-x 1 joss joss 517205 Jul 11 07:00 th_en_US.idx joss@linux:~/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/share/dict/ooo$ now follow #3 on the web page: # Start up OpenOffice.org. and go to: Tools->Options->LanguageSettings->WritingAids Hit "Edit" and use the pull down menu to select your locale and then make sure to check the MySpell SpellChecker for that locale. should do it. joss --
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