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

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 02 April 2011 00:00:53 Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2011-04-01, Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 01 April 2011 23:23:33 Liam O'Toole wrote:
> >> In the case of OOo, install the myspell-en-gb package. (It goes by
> >> country code, not region). I don't know what spell checker kmail uses.
> >
> > Thanks, Liam.  I have tried frequently over the past few years and never
> > succeeded in getting en-gb.  So I was trying to follow Camaleón's advice
> > to use extensions.  That list was the list of extensions.
> >
> > Now that I have the myspell-en-gb package, how do I persuade OOo to use
> > it?
>
> Go to Tools -> Options, expand the Language Settings node and click on
> Languages. There you can set the default language for documents. A tick
> mark next to the language name indicates that a spell checker is
> available for that language. You can also set the language on the fly
> while writing a document. In that case go to Tools -> Language and
> choose the appropriate sub-menu.

Thanks, Liam!!  I changed everything from "(default) English UK" to "English 
UK" and it now works. :-/

Lisi